Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes about Sorrow

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Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Inspirational, Time, Sorrow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.40, Jazzybee Verlag

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 Wadsworth Longfellow

Sorrow, Bed, Midnight

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.703, Library of America

Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fate, Joy, Sorrow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1891). “The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Strong, Silence, Sorrow

'Giotto's Tower' (1866)

A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sea, Sorrow, Sun

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”