Quotes About Sorrow

Living was a sad and empty thing

I wish for sorrow to be a full stop and happiness to be a comma in my life.

The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.

When someone close to you dies, the memories and recollections of them are painful.

Love is to love, be loved, and lost.Never to be enclosed in mortal hands.

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.

Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.

There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.

Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow, An uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering, High in the purer, happier air.

There is no greater sorrowThan to recall a happy timeWhen miserable.

That loss is common would not makeMy own less bitter, rather more:Too common! Never morning woreTo evening, but some heart did break.

Yet this thou art alive, but if ye soar, My poor frail heart will have beat out its cryAnd sadly miss thy sweet form all the moreWhile helplessly I stand and watch you die.

Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.

The sweet sorrow is tears of joy.

We write to shed our sorrows and give strength to our spirit.

First came him, then came I, then he came again and then I was lost forever.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

grief just sits there.

Seneca writes, "Nature requires from us some sorrow, while more than this is the result of vanity. But never will I demand of you that you should not grieve at all."1