Desire Quote by Samuel Johnson

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction…

— Samuel Johnson

Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when…

— Samuel Johnson

Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never…

— Lettie Cowman

Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also…

— Emily Giffin

Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand

— Confucius

Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.

— Dorothy Parker

Sorrow is sometimes what awakens us.

— Naz

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

— Dorothy Parker

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

— Dante Alighieri

The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.

— Epictetus

You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little. My saddestand…

— Henry David Thoreau

I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to…

— Marilynne Robinson