Sorrow Quotes

• We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

  Paul Simon

  Cutting, Knives, Rock And Roll

  Song: God Bless The Absentee

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  Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Sad, Pain

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.262, Google Publishing

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• Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Mind, Desire

  Samuel Johnson (1791). “The Rambler”, p.270

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

  William Shakespeare

  One Day, Affliction, May

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

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• Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sympathy, Grief, Condolences

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Sad, Sympathy, Stars

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria

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  If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Inspiring, Sympathy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Outre Mer. Driftwood”

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• Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Love, Hurt, Pregnancy

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Riding Shotgun”, p.151, Bantam

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  There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

  Aeschylus

  Missing You, Pain, Memories

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• To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me, and so kind.

  John Keats

  Love, Kind, Far Away

  'Endymion' (1818) bk. 4, l. 173

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  Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  Laozi

  Life, Change, Spiritual

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• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Memorial Day

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Exercise, Ideas, Soul

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.210

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• There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Pain, Loneliness, Heart

  FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Jan 23, 2013

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• Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.

  Bede Jarrett

  Grief, Grieving, Speak

  Bede Jarrett (1945). “The House of Gold: Lenten Sermons”

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• Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.

  Philip James Bailey

  Crush, Two, Able

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  When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

  Khalil Gibran

  Moving On, Sympathy, Broken Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, War, Thrones

  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

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• Sorrow makes men sincere.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Grief, Men, Sincere

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “The Life Jesus: The Christ”, p.254

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

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Happiness, Sadness, Hardship

  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1962). “Selected poems”

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• Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Mass, Gravitation, Implicit

  Lawrence Durrell (2015). “The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx”, p.68, Faber & Faber

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• Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

  Victor Hugo

  Sympathy, Doe, Fruit

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• Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

  Dorothy Parker

  Emotion, Tranquility, Remembered

  Here Lies "Sentiment" (1939) SeeWilliamWordsworth 6

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• Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.

  Homer

  Soul, Sad Soul, Graves

  Homer, Alexander Pope, Gilbert Wakefield (1796). “The Iliad of Homer: Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A new edition, with additional notes, critical and illustrative, by Gilbert Wakefield, B.A. ...”, p.55

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