Top Sorrow Quotes

A cheerful music is a powerful light for the shadows of sorrow!

Well, quite softly, one day following another, a spring on a winter, and an autumn after a summer, this wore away, piece by piece, crumb by crumb; it passed away, it is gone, I should say it has sunk;...

Sorrow Definition

(n.) The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness.

(n.) To feel pain of mind in consequence of evil experienced, feared, or done; to grieve; to be sad; to be sorry.

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

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Sorrow and self-pity consume enormous quantities of energy. If you only can desist from feeling victimized by fate and look for a new solution instead, not only would you conserve old energies but at...

The irony is that there is nothing purer than sorrow.

To fall in love with pain is to fall in love with art.

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

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

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of...

oh, how bitterhow bitter silentthe bewildered sorrowof a texture too thickto be brought outthrough the eyes.

When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn in...

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and al...

I had no idea that "letting go" would be so complicated; that it would sometimes feel liberating and other times more sorrowful and lonely. In the long run, most of it was like standing on the shore,...

holding the eveningtremblingly close to mei weepinto the sun lettingthe burdenof hopelift off my chesti realizethis is what it meansto be free.

In the mirror we see a stranger,Not the person we were born to be,For we are all pretending,Just for everyone to see.

In a corner you condense yourself and cry- in the same corner you caress and kiss. Life is this, something different each time.

Only the soul knows its sorrow.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.