Authors:

Sorrow Quotes - Page 10

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.174, Wordsworth Editions

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “A defense of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.43

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.7, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that 's gone; Violets plucked, the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again.

John Fletcher (1844). “The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions”, p.448

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Anna O. Marley (2012). “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit”, p.139, Univ of California Press

We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for gladness.

Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1876). “Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm and the First Christmas of New England”, p.43, Library of Alexandria

One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.1528, Penguin UK

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.407, Penguin

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

1934 A Backward Glance, 'A First Word'.

Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1873). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised”, p.533

One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. ~ Simon

Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1526, Simon and Schuster