SORROW QUOTES VI

quotations about sorrow


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I found more joy in sorrow
Than you could find in joy.

SARA TEASDALE
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The Answer


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Disappointments weigh so heavy
Leave it's wreckage all around
Once a good man, once respected
Sorrow breaks a good man down

WAYLON JENNINGS

"Another Blue Day"


Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Tags: Christian Nestell Bovee


They say my tears come from the bottle that stands beside me all the time
But I wonder if they know the sorrow that always overtakes the wine

PORTER WAGONER

"Sorrow Overtakes the Wine"


Sorrow made you,
Yeah,
In the bottom of the dark dead sea.

GAZETTE

"The Invisible Wall"


When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet

Tags: William Shakespeare


Ah done been in sorrow's kitchen and Ah done licked out all de pots. Ah done died in grief and been buried in de bitter waters, and Ah done rose agin from de dead lak Lazarus.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Jonah's Gourd Vine

Tags: Zora Neale Hurston


Sorrow turns the stars into mourners, and every wind of heaven into a dirge.

DAVID HANNAY

attributed, Day's Collacon


The sorrows of other men seem to us like clouds of rain that empty themselves in the distance, and whose long-travelling thunder comes to us mellowed and subdued; but our own troubles are like a storm bursting right overhead, and sending down its bolts upon us with direct plunge.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


Past sorrows, let us moderately lament them;
For those to come, seek wisely to prevent them.

JOHN WEBSTER

The Duchess of Malfi

Tags: John Webster


The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

A Defence of Poetry

Tags: Percy Bysshe Shelley


Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow's purse is free.

RICHARD HENRY STODDARD

Persian Song

Tags: Richard Henry Stoddard


Times lose no time; nor do they roll idly by; through our senses they work strange operations on the mind. Behold, they went and came day by day, and by coming and going, introduced into my mind other imaginations and other remembrances; and little by little patched me up again with my old kind of delights, unto which that my sorrow gave way.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

Tags: St. Augustine


Men die, but sorrow never dies;
The crowding years divide in vain,
And the wide world is knit with ties
Of common brotherhood in pain.

SUSAN COOLIDGE

The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey


In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bittered agony because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to expect it.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

letter to Fanny McCullough, December 23, 1862

Tags: Abraham Lincoln


Where sorrow lieth buried
The greenest herbage springs.

CAROLINE SPENCER

"Afterward"

Tags: Caroline Spencer


It is with men as with trees: if you lop off their finest branches, into which they were pouring their young life-juice, the wounds will be healed over with some rough boss, some odd excresence; and what might have been a grand tree expanding into liberal shade, is but a whimsical misshapen trunk. Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow, which has crushed and maimed the nature just when it was expanding into plenteous beauty; and the trivial erring life which we visit with our harsh blame, may be but as the unsteady motion of a man whose best limb is withered.

GEORGE ELIOT

Mr. Gilfil's Love Story


Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Die Natürliche Tochter

Tags: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Drownin' your sorrows only irrigates 'em.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

Tags: Ken Alstad


Happiness is valued only when sorrow is tasted.

KUNCHACKO BOBAN

"Two decades of Kunchacko Boban", onmanorama, August 9, 2017