Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood

Anthony Trollope

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

Anne Sexton

sorrow is easier than guilt.

David Paul

For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

Ambrose Bierce

Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

Alfred Adler

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Richard Matheson

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

Victor Hugo

He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.

Victor Hugo

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

Rick Riordan

He warned me the greediest wishes cause the greatest sorrows.

Tacitus

None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.

Robert Burns

In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

Rajneesh

There is no sorrow except in captivity.

Miguel de Cervantes

Sing away sorrow, cast away care.

John Muir

Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.

Nick Cave

Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.

Nick Cave

And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.

Philip James Bailey

Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

Mason Cooley

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

Oscar Wilde

I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

Abdul Kalam

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Jean Ingelow

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

Etty Hillesum

I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues...

Francesca Lia Block

Stories are like genies...They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like genies, everyone has one. Like genies, sometimes we forget that we do. Our stories can set us free...When we set them free.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.

George William Curtis

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

George Sand

A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.

Giacomo Casanova

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair

Horace

To drink away sorrow.

Homer

It is wrong to sorrow without ceasing.

William Saroyan

In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.