William Blake Quotes about Sorrow

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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

William Blake

Time, Sorrow, Bees

William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.166, Psychology Press

Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share?

William Blake

Fall, Compassion, Sorrow

William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.60, Routledge

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

William Blake

Happiness, Tree, Sorrow

William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.830, Oxford University Press, USA

If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.

William Blake

Spiritual, Confusion, Sorrow

William Blake (1926). “Prefatory note There is no natural religion. All religions are one. The marriage of heaven and hell Visions of the daughters of Albion. A song of liberty. America. Europe. The book of Urizen. The book of Los. Ahania. The song of Los. The four Zoas. Milton. Jerusalem. On Homer's poetry; On Virgil. Laocoön. The ghost of Abel”