Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Allan Poe

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

Eddie Vedder

The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.

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 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.

David Paul

For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

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.

Alice Hoffman

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

Alice Hoffman

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

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.

William Shakespeare

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

Richard Matheson

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

Roland Barthes

I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop my desires and sorrows from being violent ones); what impels me, secretly and obstinately, is not tactical: I accept and I affirm, irrespective of the true and the false, of success and failure; I am withdrawn from all finality, I live according to chance...

Storm Jameson

Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.

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.

Sophocles

To revive sorrow is cruel.

Sophie Swetchine

It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.

Sophie Swetchine

When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.

Soren Kierkegaard

My sorrow is my castle.

Soren Kierkegaard

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

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.

Shaggy

Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.