Quotes About Sorrow

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches...Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

There is no greater misery than false joys.

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.

We're not meant for happiness, you and I.

To let sorrow go his own way one gives happiness a chance