When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep. — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
“The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” — Rob Liano Copy Share Image
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I… — Loretta Young Copy Share Image
“O Virgins, sacrosanct, if I have ever, for your sake, suffered vigils,cold,, and hunger, great need makes me entreat my recompense.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I sat on one of the sofas, pretending I wasn’t disconcerted by the music, which paused long enough for a new, more… — K.S. Villoso Copy Share Image
This is the difference between depression and sorrow - sorrowful, you are in great trouble because something matters so much; depressed, you… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This question of love begins and ends with the willingness to be welcoming to one's own experience as a loving action towards… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
The 'lords of the earth' are those who are doing their Will. It does not necessarily mean people with coronets and automobiles;… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die… — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
If we choose the right, we will find happiness-in time. If we choose evil, there comes sorrow and regret-in time. Those effects… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder, that one missing sock after doing laundry, is the smart one. After being unhappy for so long, it finally… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which… — Anonymous 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
Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The bright days of my youthThey were full of hopeThe great journey that was before me thenWas what was destined to be,… — Enya Copy Share Image
Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Out of this sorrowful experience I understand more fully all human strivings, thwarted ambitions, and the infinite capacity of hope.” — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
“On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God. O Ali, Lion of God, King of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe.… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Shipwreck in youth is sorrowful enough, but one looks for storms at the spring equinox. Yet it is the September equinox that… — Helen Waddell Copy Share Image
In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Has everyone gone mad?” “Everyone was mad already, my lady,” Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. “It is merely that the… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
