Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Morrissey

The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.

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.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.

Miguel de Cervantes

Sing away sorrow, cast away care.

Miguel de Cervantes

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

John Muir

Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.

John Suckling

Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

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 Sidney

The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.

Philip James Bailey

Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

Marie Brennan

But coming to terms with one’s sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

Mason Cooley

Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

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.

Oscar Wilde

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.

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...

Erwin W. Lutzer

If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance.

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

This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

George Eliot

To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.

George Eliot

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

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.

George Sand

Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.

Eminem

I just can't sit back and wallow, In my own sorrow, but I know one fact: I'll be one tough act to follow.

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.