Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Campbell

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life

Joseph Butler

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

Leonard Cohen

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

Josh Billings

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.

Nick Cave

Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.

Nick Cave

And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.

Oswald Chambers

Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.

Mary Baker Eddy

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

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.

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

Leigh Hunt

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

Oscar Wilde

I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

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.

Rajneesh

There is no sorrow except in captivity.

Miguel de Cervantes

Sing away sorrow, cast away care.

Miguel de Cervantes

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

John Muir

Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.

Philip James Bailey

Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

Marie Brennan

But coming to terms with one’s sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

Mason Cooley

Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

Mason Cooley

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

John Suckling

Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

James Joyce

Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

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.

Henry B. Eyring

The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.

Helen Hunt

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. It is a woman's face usually; often a face which has trace of great sorrow all over it, till the smile breaks. Such a smile transfigures: such a smile, if the artful but knew it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

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.