Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mason Cooley

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

John Henry Newman

I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.

John Donne

Great sorrows cannot speak.

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.

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.

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.

Joseph Campbell

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life

Juliet Marillier

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.

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.

Freya Stark

From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.

Julianna Baggott

She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow.

Josh Billings

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

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.