--- title: "8 Thought Sorrow Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 8 Thought Sorrow quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Thought Sorrow sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c76/thomas-bailey-aldrich-4098_airy_sorrow-itself-is-not-so-hard-to-bear-as_270014.png" --- > [Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bailey-aldrich/sorrow-itself-is-not-so-hard-to-bear-as-the-thought-of-sorrow-coming/) [Thomas Bailey Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bailey-aldrich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c76/thomas-bailey-aldrich-4098_airy_sorrow-itself-is-not-so-hard-to-bear-as_270014.png) > [There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/there-is-nothing-that-stirs-in-the-whole-world-of-thought-to-which/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84d/oscar-wilde-16_doe_there-is-nothing-that-stirs-in-the-whole_1282324.jpg) > [“We kept walking, our shadows moving in shifting blobs over the ground. The sound of river rocks rattled under our feet. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/we-kept-walking-our-shadows-moving-in-shifting-blobs-over-the-ground/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11d/jon-raymond-153323_grief_we-kept-walking-our-shadows-moving-in-sh_1329530.jpg) > [“I thought then that we would all die in the darkness and solitude. I thought that an executioner would come for us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philippa-gregory/i-thought-then-that-we-would-all-die-in-the-darkness-and-solitude-i/) [Philippa Gregory](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philippa-gregory/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e0/philippa-gregory-674_sorrow_i-thought-then-that-we-would-all-die-in_1735182.jpg) > [Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/prosperity-pleasure-and-success-may-be-rough-of-grain-and-common-in-2/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb3/oscar-wilde-16_beaten_prosperity-pleasure-and-success-may-be-r_2177893.jpg) > [And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-naipaul/and-it-was-strange-i-thought-that-sorrow-lasts-and-can-make-a-man/) [V. S. Naipaul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-naipaul/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c19/v-s-naipaul-3828_death_and-it-was-strange-i-thought-that-sorrow_2514846.png) > [Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-wetmore-story/oh-faint-delicious-spring-time-violet-thine-odor-like-a-key-turns/) [William Wetmore Story](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-wetmore-story/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dc/william-wetmore-story-47824_delicious_oh-faint-delicious-spring-time-violet-th_2621785.png) > [“I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-garner/i-had-always-thought-that-sorrow-was-the-most-exhausting-of-the/) [Helen Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-garner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b73/helen-garner-12280_anger_i-had-always-thought-that-sorrow-was-the_2977934.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thought-sorrow/#itemlist", "name": "Thought Sorrow Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than men in steel with bloody purposes. 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