Sorrow Quotes Quotes

Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A drop of sense can save you an ocean of tears.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The heart carries heavy loads when it is being trained to carry weighty blessings.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

One learns wisdom from sorrow, but pleasure is one of the fruits of wisdom.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A wise man's sorrow is better than a fool's happiness.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

All men are guilty of the wrong they have done.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Pain in the wilderness is an investment in pleasure in the Promised Land.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Today's tears sweep the road to tomorrow's blessings.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your greatest highs come from overcoming your greatest lows.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your deepest valleys lead you to your highest mountaintops.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I want to drown in my tears,And my tears are my prayers.

~ Luffina Lourduraj

I wish for sorrow to be a full stop and happiness to be a comma in my life.

~ Luffina Lourduraj

By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of happiness.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The soul's hands carry the heart's burdens.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The heart smiles when the soul shines.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A heart's wound heals quicker than a soul's scratch.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The soul's tears are worth more than the heart's smiles.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.

~ Rob Liano

The closet bond that we share with our brethren is that of grief. Every community knows sorrow.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Every road leads to sorrow. All aspects that make life beautiful – friendship, love, art, and truth – will end. All aspects that make life hideous – pain, poverty, illness, betrayal, hate, crime, war – will also end. The fact that human life is a mere blip on a cosmic scale is no reason for personal angst as we came from nothingness and will return to the great void that birthed us.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Self-deception and vanity are grievous sin. The ego is the cause of all human suffering. We suffer from life only when we fail to examine the cause of our sorrow. Letting go of destructive illusions and freeing oneself from egotism of self-pity enables a person to sense the rich intertexture of their inner world, which is the only facet of reality that we exercise exclusive dominion and control.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

If rocks did not persevere under heat and pressure, they would never become diamonds.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Sorrow and strife comes to all persons. Mature people expect hardships and setbacks and patiently and determinedly work to accomplish their goals. Immature people lash out in anger and frustration when circumstances conspire to blunt their short-term objectives.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Count your summers, not your winters.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You cannot carry your past without dropping your future.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A smile is a song from the heart, a tear is a letter from the soul.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Tears of joy are lighter than smiles of sorrow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Tears of joy are better than smiles of sorrow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Life is a sea of sorrow in the midst of islands of happiness.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Sorrow is an opportunity to appreciate happiness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who know you see your tears even in the rain.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love's whispers drown out sorrow's echoes.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The day time will stop moving, had I known and fulfillment will be the clock hands that will show many people the hour that passed and moment in which they are.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Broken pencils still write beautiful songs.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo