Sorrow Quotes

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

~ Herbert Hoover

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

~ Fay Weldon

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

~ Dante Alighieri

I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.

~ Thalia

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

~ Aeschylus

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

~ Felix Dennis

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.

~ Saint Bernard

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

~ Victor Hugo

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

~ Thomas Hooker

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

~ Alexandre Vinet

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

~ Samuel Smiles

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

~ Albert Pike

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

~ Confucius

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

~ Thomas Moore

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

~ Meister Eckhart

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

~ Joni Mitchell

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

~ Ann Landers

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

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

~ William Blake

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

~ Barbara Sher

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

~ Ovid

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

~ James Russell Lowell

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

~ Jean Paul

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

~ Washington Irving

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

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

~ Dirk Benedict

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.

~ Thomas S. Monson

Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and without imagination, there can be no genuine morality, no profound feeling of other men's sorrow, no ardent and persevering anxiety for their interests.

~ William Godwin

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

~ Ai Weiwei

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

~ Franz Schubert

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

~ Saadi

You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

~ Rumi

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

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

~ Steven Tyler