Quotes About Sorrow

My grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the desert.

Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows.

Starting to believe Life is just a sigh of Death.

Daisies that bring you joy are better than roses that bring you sorrow.

Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy.

It is in vain to wipe away tears in the rain.

One learns wisdom from sorrow, but pleasure is one of the fruits of wisdom.

A wise man's sorrow is better than a fool's happiness.

You cannot truly know pleasure without pain.You cannot truly know strength without weakness.You cannot truly know joy without sorrow.You cannot truly know hope without despair.

The ocean cries every time it loses a drop.

I want to drown in my tears, And my tears are my prayers.

Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.

So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

In the annals of the rich and miserable, Christina Onassis stands out, if only because she was so rich and so miserable.

Sorrow makes men sincere.

Men die but sorrow never dies.

Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.