William Shakespeare Quotes About Sorrow

• Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Heart, Sadness

• Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, I Miss You, Good Night

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 176

• 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

• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Sadness, Sad Life

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [78]

• But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Loss, Thinking

  Sonnet 30

• Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Memories, Inspiration

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Eye, Men

  'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 144

• He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Heart, Sleep

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.942

• 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.

• Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth”, p.892, Bantam Classics

• Parting is such sweet sorrow

  William Shakespeare

  Sad Love, Sweet, Sorrow

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 176

• Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Brain, Mind

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 37

• Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sight, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149

• 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

• 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

• Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Night, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare (1881). “The Works of William Shakespeare”

• No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Men, Office

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.120

• 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

• My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

  William Shakespeare

  Sorrow, Charity, Shame

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.106, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Sorrow, Needs

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.38, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Art, Pain

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Sonnets”, p.140, Pushkin Press

• 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.

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