quotations about sorrow
Sorrow turns the stars into mourners, and every wind of heaven into a dirge.
DAVID HANNAY
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attributed, Day's Collacon
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Deeper I'm falling
Into the arms of sorrow
Blindly descending
Into the arms of sorrow
There must be serenity
There must be deliverance
Deeper I'm falling
Blindly descending
Deeper I'm falling
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE
"The Arms of Sorrow"
Sorrow like a ceaseless rain
Beats upon my heart.
People twist and scream in pain--
Dawn will find them still again;
This has neither wax nor wane,
Neither stop nor start.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
"Sorrow"
Drownin' your sorrows only irrigates 'em.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.
HORATIUS BONAR
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
Happiness is valued only when sorrow is tasted.
KUNCHACKO BOBAN
"Two decades of Kunchacko Boban", onmanorama, August 9, 2017
Sorrow's child sits by the river
Sorrow's child hears not the water
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
"Sorrow's Child"
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
Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together.
NEIL GAIMAN
American Gods
Confound not sorrow, which is divine and high, with trouble, which is menial and frivolous.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
Essays
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
E. M. FORSTER
A Room with a View
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
RITA MAE BROWN
Riding Shotgun
Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams;
And sorrow tracketh wrong,
As echo follows song.
HARRIET MARTINEAU
Hymn
Lay down your sorrows,
Let me carry them awhile
Cast off your sadness,
And I'll lend you a smile
You've traveled such a long way
Searchin' for the light
Lay down your sorrows
And lay with me tonight
JOHNNY WINTER
"Lay Down Your Sorrows"
Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
The Prophet