Quotes About Sorrow

Renown is a source of toil and sorrow; obscurity is a source of happiness.

Hands have not tears to flow.

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrow is in vain, For violets plucked, the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again.

Do I want to pray or only to think about my human problems? Do I want to pray or simply kneel there contemplating my sorrow? Do I want to direct my prayer toward God or let it direct itself towards me?

In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

Always repenting of wrongs done will never bring my heart to rest.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Sorrow makes us all children again.

In extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too.

The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.

There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But, oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me.

Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat.

The deeper the sorrow, the less tongue hath it.

Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her - I found more joy in sorrow Than you could find in joy.

More in sorrow than in anger.

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.