Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood

George Eliot

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Leigh Hunt

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

Publilius Syrus

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

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

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.

Mary Baker Eddy

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

Oswald Chambers

Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.

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.

John Cage

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

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 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.

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.

Mason Cooley

Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.