Sorrow Quotes

Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent te...

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of eart...

Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.It is a true tale of gr...

If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not t...

The hopes that, in my own heart sown,And cherished by such sun and rain,As Joy and transient Sorrow ...

A fool I was to sleep at noon, And wake when night is chilly Beneath the comfortless cold moon; A f...

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blosso...

But after much thought, I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing more difficult in this w...

I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and th...

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

She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their dar...

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.

And I'm hoping there's some larger truth about suffering here, or at least my understanding of it - ...

ur be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd bee...

To acknowledge God is to fully accept the sorrow of the human condition.

Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon.She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him w...

Deep in earth my love is lyingAnd I must weep alone.

How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace a simil...

Am I kin to Sorrow,That so oftFalls the knocker of my door—Neither loud nor soft,But as long accusto...

Sorrow like a ceaseless rainBeats upon my heart.People twist and scream in pain,—Dawn will find them...

There is a certain animal vitality in most of us which carries us through any trouble but the absolu...

exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift f...

She then thought the land enchanted into everlasting brightness and happiness; she fancied, then, th...

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

We were talking the other evening about the phrases one uses when trying to comfort someone who is i...

When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but ...

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superfici...

I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ...

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

I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be norm...

Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come," Tuek said. "Speed is a device of Shaitan. Cool y...

In general I lacked principally the ability to provide even in the slightest detail for the real fut...

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

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

A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow....

What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to stre...

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere ...

There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, ju...

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements the r...

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleas...

But Mary had not come into the world to be sad or to help another to be sad. Sorrowful we may often ...

Past tears are present strength.

...[T]wo of you can be no match for the three giants, I will find you, if I can, a third brother, wh...

She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow wi...

It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.

Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either

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

Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorro...

Though the face before me was that of a young woman of certainly not more than thirty years, in perf...

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

Sobs, heavy, hoarse and loud, shook the chairs, and great tears fell through his fingers on the floo...

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, n...

No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, ...

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to h...

Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. ...

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;Thy fate is the c...

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

That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true, ...

Oh, Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky. On such a day - very much such a swee...

The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this e...

Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and ev...

Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.

Question me now about all other matters, but do not ask who I am, for fear you may increase in my he...

But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well—for your own son’s...

Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not kno...

...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sin...

...every woman has some reason to weep and weeping is sweetest when it is for another's sorrow.

The greater are our affections the deeper are our afflictions, and the more we love the more we have...

In the deep places he gives thought to music great and terrible; and the echo of that music runs thr...

This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.

For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted...

Yes" Said Gandalf; "for it will be better to ride back three together than one alone. Well, here at ...

Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle...

Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are...

Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankles...

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and yo...

Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

The jewels of sorrow last forever

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow i...

I understand you.—You do not suppose that I have ever felt much.—For four months, Marianne, I have h...

In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and pres...

One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.

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

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take...

God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn wh...

Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when hea...

And when I look around the apartment where I now am,—when I see Charlotte’s apparel lying before me,...

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little ...

You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, an...