Sorrow Quotes - page 2

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear. View quote
Frank Luntz
T is now the summer of your youth. Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. View quote
Edward Moore
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Childhood has no forebodings but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. View quote
George Eliot
. . . there was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow. View quote
George Eliot
These bitter sorrows of childhood when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless. View quote
George Eliot
Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A feeling of sadness and longing That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us further than to-day. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. View quote
Cicero
Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base. View quote
John Ruskin
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Hang sorrow, carell kill a cat. View quote
Ben Jonson
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that it all happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you the good and the bad, the ecstacy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. (Leo Buscaglia)
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. View quote
Eudora Welty
Our repentance is not so much sorrow for the ill we have done as a fear of the ill that may befall us. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. View quote
Edith Wharton
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength. View quote
Charles Spurgeon