logo

Quotes About Sorrow

Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply deliver Sorrow.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
~ Homer
It is sad to be an exception. But not to be one is even sadder.
~ Peter Altenberg
Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
~ Walton Goggins
In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.
~ William Shakespeare
Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.
~ William Shakespeare
What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?
~ Euripides
Grief embraced him and welcomed him back, showering tears upon his arrival.
~ Faraaz Kazi
There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.
~ Lauren DeStefano, Sever
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
~ Emily Bronte
I have met with many of the great parents who lost their children to sanctuary cities and open borders. So many people, so many, many people. So sad.
~ Donald Trump
Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.
~ Baroness Orczy
Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!
~ John Milton
Man's feeble race what ills await! Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!
~ Thomas Gray
Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
~ Matthew Arnold
It must be sad to outlive aught we love.
~ George Eliot
What do you know about being sad?' 'I know you don't need a reason.
~ Aryn Kyle
It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.
~ Tim O'Brien
My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.
~ Charlotte Bronte
I saw sorrow turning into clarity.
~ Yoko Ono
A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
~ Djuna Barnes
What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.
~ Donna Woolfolk Cross