Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Richard Baxter

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

Ovid

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Paullina Simons

Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.

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.

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.

Samuel Johnson

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental 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.

Sarah Orne Jewett

A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.

Virgil

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

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.

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.

Lawrence Durrell

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

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

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.

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

Tacitus

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