Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Eddie Vedder

The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

Abdul Kalam

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

Edgar Allan Poe

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

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.

Aeschylus

Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.

Abraham Cowley

To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.

Cynthia Ozick

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

William Shakespeare

For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.

William Shakespeare

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.

William Shakespeare

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

Michael Bruce

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, / No winter in thy year!

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.

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.

David Paul

For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

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.

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.

Jane Austen

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

Boris Pasternak

But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.

Edith Wharton

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.