Famous Quotes & Sayings

Publilius Syrus

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

Goran Persson

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

Horace Bushnell

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

Leigh Hunt

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

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.

Mason Cooley

Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

Mason Cooley

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

Oswald Chambers

Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.

Herman Melville

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

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 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.

Jean Ingelow

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

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.

Honore de Balzac

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

Ian Caldwell

Hope...which is whispered from PAndora's box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is onl time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.

Horace

To drink away sorrow.

Homer

There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.

Homer

It is wrong to sorrow without ceasing.

George William Curtis

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Epictetus

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

Emile Zola

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

Henry Hazlitt

Libertarians are learning to their sorrow that big businessmen cannot necessarily be relied upon to be their allies in the battle against extension of governmental encroachments.

Rajneesh

There is no sorrow except in captivity.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.

Henry Rollins

It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.