Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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

A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

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.

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!.

John Cage

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

John Donne

Great sorrows cannot speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.

Freya Stark

From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.

Emile Zola

When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.

Epictetus

The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.

Henry Ward Beecher

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

John Henry Newman

I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.

Edgar Allan Poe

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

Herman Melville

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

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.

George Eliot

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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