Sorrow Quotes by William Shakespeare

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

— William Shakespeare

A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more…

— William Shakespeare

Parting is such sweet sorrow

— William Shakespeare

Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and…

— William Shakespeare

No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue…

— William Shakespeare

Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business, Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care Take hold…

— William Shakespeare

“The shadow of my sorrow. Let's see, 'tis very true. My griefs lie all within and these external manners of laments are…

— William Shakespeare

Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . .…

— William Shakespeare

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

— William Shakespeare

Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful…

— William Shakespeare

Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.

— William Shakespeare

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.

— William Shakespeare

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

— William Shakespeare

Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! But it means that they have the ability to deal with…

— William Shakespeare

That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my…

— William Shakespeare

Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.

— William Shakespeare

Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time…

— William Shakespeare

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the…

— William Shakespeare

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

— William Shakespeare

Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of…

— William Shakespeare

Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.

— William Shakespeare

And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.

— William Shakespeare

He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake,…

— William Shakespeare

I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities;…

— William Shakespeare

Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

— William Shakespeare