Sorrow Quotes

Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland

My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot

Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
- Anonymous

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu

For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb

There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton

I cannot know the pain you feel.
I cannot share your memories or your loss.
My words of sympathy are beneath measure, yet
know that my heart reaches out with love to your heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow...
but only empties today of its strength.
- C. H. Spurgeon

Make the most of your regrets;
never smother your sorrow,
but tend and cherish it till it comes to have
a separate and integral interest.
To regret deeply is to live afresh.
- Henry David Thoreau

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare

Endings: sometimes a season of sorrow and grief.
Endings: what must precede new beginnings.
Life is an endless cycle of endings and beginnings.
Renewal and rebirth cannot occur without endings -
as the new year's crop can only be planted and flourish
in the decay of last year.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do not mourn the dead, but comfort the living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow,
for the root of all grief is attachment.
Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
- Chanakya

If future generations are to remember us
more with gratitude than sorrow,
we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology.
We must also leave them a glimpse of the world
as it was created, not just as it looked
when we got through with it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

I give you this one thought to keep -
I am with you still - I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the sweet uplifting rush,
of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft starts that shine at night.
Do not think of me as gone -
I am with you still in each new dawn.
- Traditional Native American Prayer

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for;
as for me,
I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
- H. L. Mencken

The River of Life is the source of all joy -
and the source of all sorrow.
Yet the River has no joy -
and the River has no sorrow.
The River is just the River.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
- Fay Weldon

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring,
meaningful and beautiful.
I always feel guilty that this is my job,
that I get to do this.
- Alice Hoffman

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this,
that I have found it easier to read the mystery told
in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.
- George William Russell

Partying is such sweet sorrow.
- Robert Byrne

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
- Thomas Kempis

Unending was the stream, unending the misery,
unending the sorrow.
- Karl Amadeus Hartmann

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.
- John Fletcher

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
- Rene Descartes

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly,
acutely miserable, racked with sorrow,
but through it all I still know quite certainly that
just to be alive is a grand thing.
- Agatha Christie

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest,
the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
- Lord Byron

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
- Washington Irving

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
- Helen Hunt Jackson

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
- Francis J. Braceland

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation,
the sorrow...
that are the aftermath of war.
- Herbert Hoover

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

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
- Joni Mitchell

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which
can be foreseen and known:
but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
- Freya Stark

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty,
then we wait forever.
And miss the entire point.
- Dirk Benedict

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.
- Robert Greene

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry -
the old maid,
the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
- Lafcadio Hearn

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
- George William Curtis

If we could read the secret history of our enemies
we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering
enough to disarm all hostility.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this,
and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude
of mistakes and harm I have caused.
- Jack Abramoff

Patience is sorrow's salve.
- Charles Churchill

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped
the roses from your cheek,
though sorrow long has washed them.
- Edward Moore

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it,
but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born
to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
- Voltaire

The tortures of present death disturb him not,
but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
- John Strachan

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy,
It is not safe to know.
- William Davenant

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
- Confucius

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
- Alexandre Vinet

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
- Andrei Platonov

There's so much more to life than that,
though I think that acting is fascinating because you
can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
- Beatrice Wood

What is the life of man!
Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to
sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation!
And unbutton another!
- Laurence Sterne

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance:
compassion puts us in mind of the debt,
and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.
- Joseph Butler

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
- Sara Teasdale

Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day,
nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash,
and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily,
fortune will send it.
- Thomas Dekker

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the
pleasure of pleasure itself.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots.
Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows,
with a harp and sword in my hands.
- Zora Neale Hurston

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
- Saadi

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death.
The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
- David Hume

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to
feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage,
you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him.
You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your
sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
- Eudora Welty

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another's grief,
and not seek for kind relief?
- William Blake

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
- Samuel Richardson

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow;
but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
- Harriet Ann Jacobs

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us;
in joy we face the storm and defy it.
- Amelia Barr

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
- Alfred de Musset

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