It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. Votes: 6
Amelia BarrPeople who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. Votes: 4
Ann LandersSorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing. Votes: 4
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. Votes: 4
Robert Green IngersollThe excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. Votes: 4
Eudora WeltySorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. Votes: 3
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery. Votes: 3
Christian Nestell BoveeSorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness. Votes: 3
Adoniram Judson GordonThou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold. Votes: 3
Alphonse de LamartineSorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love. Votes: 3
Moses ibn EzraSorrow is the violent smashing of reason, in that reason has no power over it. Votes: 3
Nina SankovitchWe are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians. Votes: 3
Khalil GibranCare draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain. Votes: 3
Michael DraytonSorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy. Votes: 3
Charles SpurgeonSorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up. Votes: 3
Fyodor DostoevskySorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived. Votes: 3
George HerbertSorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. Votes: 3
SolomonSorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face. Votes: 3
Henry Ward BeecherSorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face. Votes: 3
Austin O'MalleyGood night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. Votes: 2
William ShakespeareAh, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow! Votes: 0
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyonit is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes ... Votes: 0
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneLove's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life. Votes: 0
Jean-Pierre Claris de FlorianThe sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed. Votes: 0
Steven MorrisseyJoy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice Votes: 0
Albert SchweitzerHumor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human. Votes: 0
Elizabeth McCrackenâ¦in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow. Votes: 0
Louisa May AlcottRisk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation. Votes: 0
Robert GennDay-thoughts feed nightly dreams; And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song. Votes: 0
Harriet MartineauLet us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heartconverted it into a tomb. Votes: 0
Nathaniel HawthorneThe demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. Votes: 0
Jiddu KrishnamurtiAffliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareBorrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. Votes: 0
Cormac McCarthyI wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard. Votes: 0
Charles BukowskiThere's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it. Votes: 0
E. M. Forster... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation. Votes: 0
Jane Frances de ChantalHere is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoyevskyHere is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyTurn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaHe gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips. Votes: 0
Jodi PicoultThe lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyJoy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherNo greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand. Votes: 0
Friedrich SchillerLife is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow. Votes: 0
George R. R. MartinThe sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb. Votes: 0
Nathaniel HawthorneBad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareHappiness in nature is a double happiness; sorrow in nature is a half sorrow! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanWorry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. Votes: 0
Corrie Ten BoomI read once that sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks ahead. Votes: 0
Sandra SteffenWorry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. Votes: 0
Corrie Ten BoomWhen sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries. Votes: 0
Jean IngelowThe pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. Votes: 0
Percy Bysshe ShelleyThat conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonA cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images. Votes: 0
George SandGive thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage... Votes: 0
Robert NathanNo great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow. Votes: 0
Edwin Hubbel ChapinIf you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will. Votes: 0
Iyanla VanzantSlight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonEveryone is overridden by thoughts; that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow. Votes: 0
RumiBut sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich. Votes: 0
Alan Paton"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaOld grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow. Votes: 0
John DonneThere are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection. Votes: 0
Washington IrvingI know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post. Votes: 0
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneThe natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. Votes: 0
Washington IrvingIt is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest. Votes: 0
Edwin Hubbel ChapinI have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading. Votes: 0
Daniel PennacAll things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaLike a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow. Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonHumor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace. Votes: 0
Matthew FoxFunk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow. Votes: 0
Nina SimoneGuilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider. Votes: 0
Dean KoontzThe thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow. Votes: 0
Sandra CisnerosPrayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen us for the journey ahead. Votes: 0
George W. BushWe honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow. Votes: 0
W. H. AudenHe grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerIf you have never known happiness and sorrow, then you have not fully experience life. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaThe keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. Votes: 0
SophoclesShame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow. Votes: 0
Aaron HillWork is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility. Votes: 0
Dieter F. UchtdorfAnd sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareChildhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. Votes: 0
George EliotOut of sorrow entire worlds have been builtOut of longing great wonders have been willed Votes: 0
Nick CaveThrough effort you will cross any raging flood, through energy you will pass any sorrow. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaSending you sincere condolences and the wish that the passing of time eases your sorrow. Votes: 0
Margaret JonesA cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away. Votes: 0
Wes FeslerThis sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise. Votes: 0
Dante AlighieriA mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyIn joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight. Votes: 0
George MacDonaldTrust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know. Votes: 0
James A. BaldwinAll sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself. Votes: 0
Blaise Pascal(About the movies:) Well, I git enough of sorrow. I like to git away from it. Votes: 0
John SteinbeckNot in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine. Votes: 0
William Gilmore SimmsThe sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Votes: 0
Washington IrvingAnger can try to break your heart, but sorrow is what will. What can. What does. Votes: 0
Elizabeth ScottA propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. Votes: 0
David HumeThere are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow. Votes: 0
John SteinbeckOut of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillThe path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown. Votes: 0
William CowperHer own misery filled her heart"there was no room in it for other people's sorrow. Votes: 0
George EliotIf the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy. Votes: 0
Albert CamusMany an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear. Votes: 0
George EliotI have come to realize you can never be truly happy unless you've known some sorrow. Votes: 0
Lisa KleypasMy charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage! Votes: 0
William ShakespeareYou're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk. Votes: 0
John SteinbeckI maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me. Votes: 0
Meister EckhartHe that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes. Votes: 0
Walter ScottNever to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. Votes: 0
William WordsworthThe proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own. Votes: 0
Thomas CampbellOur little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow. Votes: 0
Betty MacDonaldBut sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love. Votes: 0
Stephen KingAnd if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyThere was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow Votes: 0
W. H. AudenAll anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyPools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m Votes: 0
John LennonWhatever path you follow push on till tomorrow, Love all, Serve all, and Create no sorrow. Votes: 0
Trevor HallA person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand. Votes: 0
Jane HirshfieldCome all ye that pass by, and see if there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow. Votes: 0
Maria W. StewartThe real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys. Votes: 0
B. C. ForbesThere is no sorrow like a love denied. Nor any joy like love that has its will. Votes: 0
Richard HoveyThe past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow. Votes: 0
Langston HughesYour cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareIf a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. Votes: 0
ConfuciusMy mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow. Votes: 0
Rita RudnerShow me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial. Votes: 0
Tennessee WilliamsThe writer's job is the job of a clown â¦the clown who also talks about sorrow. Votes: 0
Kenzaburo OeIf you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow Votes: 0
Rainer Maria RilkeThere is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever Votes: 0
Marion Zimmer BradleyIn durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. Votes: 0
Robert BurnsServe God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin. Votes: 0
Mother TeresaWe ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy. Votes: 0
J.R. MillerI think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow. Votes: 0
Patti SmithJoy takes away from us the thoughts of our actions; sorrow it is that awakens the soul. Votes: 0
Margaret of ValoisWhen I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived. Votes: 0
Anne FrankEverything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there. Votes: 0
Giovanni Giocondo...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow. Votes: 0
Alexandre DumasI've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin Votes: 0
Shinobu OhtakaI've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin Votes: 0
Ohtaka ShinobuThere is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it. Votes: 0
Amelia BarrWith no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same. Votes: 0
Peter GabrielLet go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaIn a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients. Votes: 0
Alice HoffmanNever let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen. Votes: 0
Mother TeresaIt is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroA man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeIf you have a sorrow that you cannot tell to anyone, you can go to our Father in Heaven. Votes: 0
Johanna SpyriI believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.
Corra May HarrisThe closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
Cormac McCarthyMany people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
Ivy Compton-BurnettI never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.
Julian FellowesYou don't really care about the trials of tomorrow, rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow
Kid CudiThere's an answer, if you reach into your soul, and the sorrow that you know will melt away.
Mariah CareyMy sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.
Alice HoffmanMrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal ...
Bess Streeter AldrichThe dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxBashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.
Samuel JohnsonTo me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
Sophocles...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
Aldous HuxleyLife doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.
Deborah SmithWhat is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
Edvard MunchGood fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
Alice HoffmanI feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.
Elie WieselBut coming to terms with one's sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.
Marie BrennanIve always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.
ThaliaThat sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.
Thomas BrooksFor us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.
Oscar WildeSorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.
Bede JarrettThere seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces The guttural sorrow of the refugees.
Louis MacNeiceMay it make your sorrow Easier for you to bear Knowing there are others Who understand and care.
Rob JacksonThe joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Thomas MaloryOur hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.
Orville DeweyEach time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Alexander SmithIt will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
Ivy Compton-BurnettWhat I'm sowing today, I be reaping tomorrow So here's some joyful bars, to replace your sorrow.
LL Cool JSome words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.
Paullina Simonseven though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.
Alice Hegan RiceThe outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes.
Dan FogelbergWe passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
Louise ErdrichEveryone is in pain.No matter where they come from or what you think of them. Sorrow spares no one
Sherrilyn KenyonLearn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.
Swami VivekanandaSorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.
Townes Van ZandtWe were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.
Cynthia OzickWhen I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.
Francis of AssisiJoy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
George EliotSorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.
Mahatma GandhiPhysical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.
Maurice MaeterlinckThe rain has spoiled the farmer's day; Shall sorrow put my books away? Thereby are two days lost.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.
Samuel JohnsonGive sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
William ShakespeareIf you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.
Oswald ChambersThe truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.
Andre DubusYou will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.
Christopher PikeThe ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.
Thomas Bailey AldrichTape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.
Yoko OnoWhat else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow? Votes: 1 Thomas a Kempis
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction. Votes: 3 Tryon Edwards
It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me. Votes: 1 Saint Ignatius
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed. Votes: 2 Joseph Butler