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William Shakespeare Quotes about Sorrow

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Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! But it means that they have the ability to deal with it

Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! But it means that they have the ability to deal with it

William Shakespeare
Mean, Laughing, Sorrow

Parting is such sweet sorrow

William Shakespeare
Sad Love, Sweet, Sorrow
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 176

A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

William Shakespeare
Sorrow, Faces, Horatio
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 231

For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.

William Shakespeare
Sorrow, Done, Ends
William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1860). “All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale. Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2”, p.343

Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Humble, Sorrow
William Shakespeare, John Fletcher (2000). “King Henry VIII: Third Series”, p.291, Cengage Learning EMEA

Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.

William Shakespeare
Choices, Sorrow, Library
'Titus Andronicus' (1590) act 4, sc. 1, l. 34

Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.

William Shakespeare
Sorrow, Causes, Ends
1606 Ross to S I ward. Macbeth, act 5, sc.11, l.10-12.

A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

William Shakespeare
Morning, Sorrow, Romeo And Juliet Love
1595 Prince. Romeo andJuliet, act 5, sc.3, l.308-9.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare
Time, Long, Sorrow
William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.326, Oxford University Press on Demand

Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye.

William Shakespeare
Sleep, Eye, Sorrow
1595 Helena. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 3, sc.3, l.23-4.

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

William Shakespeare
Men, Light, Sorrow
William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.46, BookCaps Study Guides

Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.

William Shakespeare
Business, Play, Sorrow
William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “King Lear”, p.94, Palgrave Macmillan

Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?

William Shakespeare
Heart, Sorrow, Faces
William Shakespeare (1832). “Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott”, p.134

And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.

William Shakespeare
Sleep, Eye, Sorrow
William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.438

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Sadness, Sorrow
1596 Constance. KingJohn, act 2, sc.2, l.68-9.

Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.

William Shakespeare
Sorrow, Comfort
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3867, BookCaps Study Guides

for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. (Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)

William Shakespeare
Kings, Grief, Sorrow
1596 Constance. KingJohn, act 2, sc.2, l.71-3.

No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine And made no deeper wounds?

William Shakespeare
Blow, Wrinkles, Sorrow
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.355

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

William Shakespeare
Sorrow, One Day, Affliction
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.111

Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Sorrow, Weight

Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business, Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care Take hold on me; for my particular grief Is of so floodgate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Sorrow, Bed
1603-4 Brabanzio, learning of Desdemona's marriage. Othello, act 1, sc.3, l.55-8.

So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. But they are creul tears. This sorrow's heavenly; it strikes where it doth love.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Sorrow, Tears
'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 1

When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.

William Shakespeare
Love, Sorrow
William Shakespeare (1784). “Stockdale's Edition of Shakespeare: Including, in One Volume, the Whole of His Dramatic Works with Explanatory Notes Compiled from Various Commentators”, p.122

Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

William Shakespeare
Kings, War, Sorrow
William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.73

Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Joy, Sorrow
William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.260

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