Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tennessee Williams

Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.

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.

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.

Lawrence Durrell

Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.

Thomas a Kempis

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.

Shaggy

Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.

Steven Morrissey

The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.

Robert Burns

In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

Roland Barthes

I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop my desires and sorrows from being violent ones); what impels me, secretly and obstinately, is not tactical: I accept and I affirm, irrespective of the true and the false, of success and failure; I am withdrawn from all finality, I live according to chance...

Storm Jameson

Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

Rick Riordan

He warned me the greediest wishes cause the greatest sorrows.

Tacitus

None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.

Sophocles

To revive sorrow is cruel.

Sophie Swetchine

It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.

Sophie Swetchine

When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.

Soren Kierkegaard

My sorrow is my castle.

Soren Kierkegaard

There is peace and rest and comfort in 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.

Victor Hugo

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

Richard Matheson

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

Richard Baxter

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

Trevor Hall

Whatever path you follow push on till tomorrow, Love all, Serve all, and Create no sorrow.

Samuel Johnson

I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.

Samuel Johnson

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

Samuel Johnson

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

Samuel Johnson

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

Samuel Johnson

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.