Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jean Ingelow

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

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

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.

Goran Persson

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

Horace Bushnell

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood

Bill Clinton

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

William Blake

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

LL Cool J

What I'm sowing today, I be reaping tomorrow So here's some joyful bars, to replace your sorrow.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

Louis Sullivan

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

Ovid

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Paullina Simons

Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.

Eknath Easwaran

Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.

John Bunyan

He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.

Lisa Kleypas

I have come to realize you can never be truly happy unless you've known some sorrow.

Joseph Heller

She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.