Sorrow Quotes

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Partying is such sweet sorrow.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

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.

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

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

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

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

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

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

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.