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Quotes About Sorrow

If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.
~ Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
I call the right axe Sorrow, " she said. "You know what I call the left one?" "Happiness?" "Sorrow. I can't tell them apart.
~ Lev Grossman
Without the door let sorrow lie, And if for cold it hap to die, We'll bury 't in a Christmas pie, And evermore be merry.
~ George Wither
Comedy Born :) When Tragedy Happens :(
~ Navin M. Karmarkar
Two puzzles that cannot be solved:The miracle of birth and misery of death.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.
~ Pablo Neruda
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
~ Charles Dickens
You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.
~ Christopher Pike, Phantom
Indeed, the opposite of joy is not sorrow. The opposite of joy is unbelief.
~ Leslie Weatherhead
A prophet weeps while others are laughing.
~ Warren W. Wiersbe
Abba Dorotheos said: No matter what kind of sorrow comes to you, don't blame anyone but yourself, and say, "This has happened because of my sins."
~ Ignatius Bryanchaninov
The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.
~ Chanakya
Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.
~ Matt Goldman
Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.
~ Edward Gorey
You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to mention love.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?
~ Khalil Gibran
There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
~ Lord Byron
To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Ignoring the question is not the solution of problem, Same as forgetting the sorrow isn't happiness
~ Sarthak Tiwari
I weep for the stupidity of my sins.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I have shed many tears.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he held onto nothing, and he held onto dreams.
~ Neil Gaiman, American Gods