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Quotes about Sorrow


Men die but sorrow never dies.

Sarah Chauncey (Susan Coolidge) Woolsey

Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

Oscar Wilde

Whate'er there be of Sorrow
I'll put off till To-morrow,
And when To-morrow comes, why then
'T will be To-day and Joy again.

John Kendrick Bangs

There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.

Richard Hovey

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.

Sophocles

That saying which I hear commonly repeated,--that time assuages sorrow.

Terence

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Publius Syrus

Sing away sorrow, cast away care.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array,--
Days of absence, I am weary:
She I love is far away.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Who never ate his bread in sorrow,
Who never spent the darksome hours
Weeping, and watching for the morrow,--
He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Old Testament

The sorrows of death compassed me.

Old Testament

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Old Testament

He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Old Testament

I have devoted my life ... to the production of objects designed to please, to enhance life, to allay sorrow

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a time of happiness in misery.

Dante

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

Amelia Burr

Every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

Amelia Burr

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.

Saadi

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

If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.

Italian proverb

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

Kahlil Gibran

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?

Kahlil Gibran

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,-- Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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