Sorrow Quotes - Page 7

There'll be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes there'll be sorrow

Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily grateful that they are not worse.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

On sorrow floats laughter.

a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish a habit of goodwill, ready to show pity if sorrow appears, and slow to turn away even if hostility appears.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over

The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

In heaven we will sing free of all the shame, sickness and sorrow that we encounter in the here and now.

Victorian sorrow: the stars are winking in the sky, but not for us.

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied.

The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow.

"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.