Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wallace Stegner

I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow

Samuel Richardson

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

W. H. Auden

There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow

Victor Hugo

He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.

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.

Jean Ingelow

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

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.

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.

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.

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 never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

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.

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.