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Samuel Johnson Quotes about Sorrow

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Grief is a species of idleness.

Grief is a species of idleness.

Grief, Sorrow, Species

Letter to Mrs Thrale, 17 March 1773, in R. W. Chapman (ed.) 'The Letters of Samuel Johnson' (1952) vol. 1

It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.

Fear, Sorrow, Gold

"The Rambler".

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.

Passion, Sorrow, Unions

Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.124

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

Memories, Sorrow, Progress

Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”

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

Sorrow, Together, Would Be

"Johnsoniana, Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson".

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

Sorrow, May, Sometimes

Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.285

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

Sorrow, Sentimental, Leisure

Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...”, p.27

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

Sorrow, Employment, Safe

Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.249

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

Wisdom, Sorrow, Useless

Samuel Johnson (1816). “A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774”, p.152

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

Love, Sorrow, Useless

Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.107

For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed; that the dead should return, or the past should be recalled.

Past, Law, Sorrow

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.83

But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.

Loss, Sorrow, Gains

Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.36, Harvard University Press

Social sorrow loses half its pain.

Pain, Sorrow, Half

Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.347

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

Past, Mind, Sorrow

Samuel Johnson (1791). “The Rambler”, p.270

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

Sorrow, Tears, Littles

Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.304

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

Men, Vanity, Sorrow

Samuel Johnson (1851). “The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works”, p.94

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