Sorrow Quotes

29 quotations about Sorrow
Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.
Bible · Sorrow
Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
William Blake · Sorrow
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake · Sorrow
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton · Sorrow
The busy have no time for tears.
Lord Byron · Sorrow
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
Marcus T. Cicero · Sorrow
There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
Marcus T. Cicero · Sorrow
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
Confucius · Sorrow
The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.
William Cowper · Sorrow
Sorrow makes us children again.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Sorrow
The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Sorrow
Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Sorrow
There is something in sorrow more akin to the course of human affairs than joy.
C. Fitzhugh · Sorrow
Sorrow has produced more melody than mirth.
C. Fitzhugh · Sorrow
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Washington Irving · Sorrow
Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.
Samuel Johnson · Sorrow
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
Stephen B. Leacock · Sorrow
Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell.
Joni Mitchell · Sorrow
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Ovid · Sorrow
Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
Dorothy Parker · Sorrow
Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.
Jean Paul · Sorrow
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Jean Paul Richter · Sorrow
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
William Shakespeare · Sorrow
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Percy Bysshe Shelley · Sorrow
The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
Barbara Sher · Sorrow

Authors on Sorrow

Bible William Blake Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Lord Byron Marcus T. Cicero Confucius William Cowper Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Fitzhugh Washington Irving Samuel Johnson Stephen B. Leacock Joni Mitchell Ovid Dorothy Parker Jean Paul Jean Paul Richter William Shakespeare Percy Bysshe Shelley Barbara Sher