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Sorrow Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of…
- The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.
- [L]ike thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough year just awake In its cradle on the brake. The…
- I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. You…
- Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
- The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
- As long as skies are blue, and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year…
- We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,…
- One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope too like…
- Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this…
More Sorrow Quotes
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. — Honore de Balzac
- It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. — Amelia Barr
- There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it. — Amelia Barr
- Genius is sorrow's child. — John Adams
- I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That… — Kathleen Battle
- Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown… — Joseph Addison
- I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. — Joseph Addison
- In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of… — Dirk Benedict
- The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. — A. C. Benson
- Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our… — Ezra Taft Benson