Quotes About Sorrow

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.

Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears.

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

Hence these tears.

Well, I cannot find, and have never found, any way of comforting such people, except to express great sorrow at their trouble, which, when I see them so miserable, I really do feel. It is useless to argue with them, for they brood over their woes and make up their minds that they are suffering for God's sake, and thus never really understand that it is all due to their own imperfection. And

His tears reached deep inside and tore great chunks from what was left of his heart.

Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away. Just let it out, my friend.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give em? Humor. And if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot 's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

Of comfort no man speak. Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs. Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes write sorrow on the bosom of the earth." I

I prayed in my heart for a real father, since the one I had been given was a failure to me. That was my deepest wish, and my deepest sorrow.

Yes, I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart.

The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.

Ich liebe dich ja...wie heißt es doch, wenn man einen Zweig abbricht und die Blätter abreißt? Von Herzen, mit Schmerzen, über alle Maßen. (S.69)

Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

The greatest happiness is the happiness that comes as a by-product of striving to do what must be done, even though sorrow is met in the doing.