I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me… — Boethius Copy Share Image
“Sobs, heavy, hoarse and loud, shook the chairs, and great tears fell through his fingers on the floor - just such tears,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to… — Rudolph Fisher Copy Share Image
For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow. — Marvin Gaye Copy Share Image
Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything.… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I don’t understand hospital chaplains that try to rob my patients of their anger. Sometimes anger is a key motivator that gets… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
