Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Andrei Platonov

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

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.

David Paul

For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

William Shakespeare

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

Aeschylus

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

Cynthia Ozick

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

William Shakespeare

A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

Jan Karon

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

Juvenal

The finishing stroke of all sorrow.

Charlotte Bronte

There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.

Myrtle Reed

There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

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.

George Eliot

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

William Blake

Can I see another's woe, / And not be in sorrow too?

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.

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.

Bill Clinton

In our interdependent world, we have to suffer the sorrows of each other.

Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood

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.

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

Mary Baker Eddy

Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.

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.