Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Hoffman

In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.

Alexander MacLaren

Don't waste your sorrows

E. M. Forster

There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

Dorothy Richardson

Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty.

Dorothy Day

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

Andrei Platonov

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Anne Sexton

sorrow is easier than guilt.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

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.

Amy Tan

too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

Amin Maalouf

Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.

Edgar Allan Poe

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

Eddie Vedder

The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

Abdul Kalam

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

C. S. Lewis

If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.

Cynthia Ozick

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

David Paul

For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

Isak Dinesen

There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows

Giordano Bruno

It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.

Oswald Chambers

Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.

Publilius Syrus

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

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.

Oliver Goldsmith

Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.

Oliver Goldsmith

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

Kid Cudi

You don't really care about the trials of tomorrow, rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow

Honore de Balzac

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood

Herman Melville

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

Ian Caldwell

Hope...which is whispered from PAndora's box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is onl time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.