Sorrows Quotes

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.
- Joseph Campbell

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause,
does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
- Hesiod

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home,
and broods a nest of sorrows.
- Jeremy Taylor

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains;
but,
like them, they break the storm and purify the air
of the plain beneath them.
- Jean Paul

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
- Khalil Gibran

Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.
- Francois de Malherbe

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black,
over our heads scarcely gray.
- Jean Paul

Love's boat has been shattered against the life of everyday.
You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a list of mutual hurts,
sorrows, and pains.
- Vladimir Mayakovsky

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
- Emily Bronte

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
- Orison Swett Marden

But whoever gives birth to useless children,
what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself,
and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
- Sophocles

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the
pangs and fury of despair.
- Joseph Addison

There are people who are always anticipating trouble,
and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that
never really happen to them.
- Josh Billings

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven,
some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
- Nikolai Gogol

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens,
or half their greatness goes unnoticed.
- Peter S. Beagle

And almost every one, when age, Disease,
or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God,
Or something very like him.
- Arthur Hugh Clough

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows,
but only empties today of its strength.
- Charles Spurgeon

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish
desire to voice all the joys and sorrows,
the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro,
in classic musical form.
- James Weldon Johnson

Your joys and sorrows.
You can never tell them.
You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
- Greta Garbo

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived,
grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
- Stefan Kanfer

There are few sorrows, however poignant,
in which a good income is of no avail.
- Logan P. Smith

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes,
but its fears.
- A. C. Benson

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story
or tell a story about them.
- Isak Dinesen

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women
of no note do great deeds,
speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
- Charles Reade

Seek not to know what must not be reveal,
for joy only flows where fate is most concealed.
A busy person would find their sorrows much more;
if future fortunes were known before!
- John Dryden

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim,
and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
- Frida Kahlo

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts
are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
- Robert Bulwer-Lytton

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender
shadows which our sorrows cast.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not;
and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
- William Butler Yeats

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with
glaring colors will baby people become interested -
for a while at least.
The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.
- Emma Goldman

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person.
They are you, your private joys and sorrows,
and you can never tell them.
You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself,
when you tell them.
- Greta Garbo

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things.
A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there.
And so living with them through the various teenage
hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
- Andrew Greeley

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition,
men have at all times, and in all countries,
called in some physical aid to their moral consolations -
wine,
beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
- Edmund Burke

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others.
It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy.
It has eyes to see misery and want.
It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men.
That is what love looks like.
- Saint Augustine

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by
the very condition of humanity,
and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life,
we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating
the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
- Joseph Addison

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows.
She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children
who may all be torn from her the next morning;
and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
- Harriet Ann Jacobs

The cure for all the ills and wrongs,
the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity,
all lie in the one word 'love'.
It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
- Lydia M. Child

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through -
the sorrows and joys,
victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from.
Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of
writing will be songs that mean something to others.
- Jim Cole

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
- Charles Dickens

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart.
As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
- Barbara Sher

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

I Did Not Die
Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there. 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's rain,
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.
- Anonymous

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