Sorrow Quotes · Page 19

... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation.

— Jane Frances de Chantal

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

— Oscar Wilde

Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage.

— Robert Nathan

Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.

— Tennessee Williams

Please sweetie don't do it. Your life will get better I promise

— Anonymous

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

— Rene Descartes

“Sorrow makes us all children again.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson said that.”

— Leonard Pitts Jr

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

— Sara Teasdale

“If you have no scars, it doesn't mean you are strong, it means you never had the courage to live.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.

— Thomas Merton

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the…

— Alexandre Dumas

When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.

— Gary Player

You can love till it hurts, you can cry till tomorrow but real love, true love will make you feel no sorrow.

— Anonymous

Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

— Georg Ebers

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

— Rumi

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

— Haruki Murakami

Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to…

— Henri Nouwen

“Raindrops fall from clouds of gray. The fragile flowers grow. Teardrops seem all I can say. They speak of endless woe. Your…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology.…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“Where is an intimate friend who’ll hear the secret from me straight out– of what human beings have been from the moment…

— Omar Khayyám

It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security,…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so…

— Edmund Burke

Silent rushes the swift Lord Through ruined systems still restored, Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless, Plants with worlds the wilderness; Waters…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I was sitting in front of the hut and watching the ground darken and the sea grow a phosphorescent green. Not a…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“I may have come close, but I never had what you had. Something always held me back or stood in the way.…

— André Aciman

Don't let yourself forget that God's grace rewards not only those who never slip, but also those who bend and fall. So…

— Hildegard of Bingen

The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarified of my…

— William Jones

A verse of Scripture in the morning, may become a blessing for all the day. It may sing in the heart as…

— J.R. Miller

“Don’t worry if love is not a perfect fairytale—it should be fun and exciting, but not without a few hiccups. Love won't…

— Michael Brent Jones

The world is big, but still theres no one to be found In the time off pain and distress. The only thing…

— R_lovesyou

“(Streets of Sorrow) Oh, farewell you streets of sorrow Oh, farewell you streets of pain I'll not return to feel more sorrow…

— The Pogues

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

— Washington Irving

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

— Mason Cooley

“No true artist is possible without sorrow and suffering and renunciation.”

— Jessie Fothergill

If we never felt sorrow, we'd never recognize bliss.

— Dennis Quaid

Hurting someone else will never ease your own inner torment.

— Senora Roy

When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry.

— Kim Hyesoon

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

— A. C. Benson

“Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?”

— Louis XIV