Quotes about Sorrow

“Sorrow makes us children again.”

“The busy have no time for tears.”

“Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.”

“The cure for sorrow is to learn something.”

“Sorrow has produced more melody than mirth.”

“Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.”

“Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.”

“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”

“Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell.”

“The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.”

“There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.”

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

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

“The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.”

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”

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

“The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.”

“Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.”

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

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

“There is something in sorrow more akin to the course of human affairs than joy.”

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

“The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.”

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

“We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.”

“Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.”

“Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.”

“Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.”

“To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.”

“But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.”