Sorrow Quotes - page 3

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. (Leo Buscaglia)
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. View quote
Eudora Welty
Our repentance is not so much sorrow for the ill we have done as a fear of the ill that may befall us. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. View quote
Edith Wharton
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. View quote
Thomas Moore
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. View quote
Billy Sunday
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. View quote
Albert Pike
Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals is utterly useless to any one a blight never does good to a tree, if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight. View quote
William Blake
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. (William Wordsworth)
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again. View quote
William Wordsworth
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. View quote
Ann Landers
There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy. View quote
Franz Schubert
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. View quote
Meister Eckhart
As long as skies are blue, and fields are green, Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow. (Dirk Benedict)
Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't. View quote
Elizabeth Wurtzel
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness. View quote
Isaac Mayer Wise
A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow. View quote
Pythagoras
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before. View quote
Rollo May