Sorrow Quotes - Page 5

• No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Healing, Grieving

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Income

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• Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Men, Crucible, Gold

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• As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Remembrance, Bitter, Should

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.187, Delphi Classics

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• Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Clouds, Heaven, Storm

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.92

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• There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Giving, Flavor, Acid

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• Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Evil

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1891). “Critical and literary”

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• Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.

  Joseph Addison

  Mean, Men, Affliction

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.656

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• Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

  Leigh Hunt

  Helping Others, Bears, Failing

  Leigh Hunt (1853). “The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty”, p.27

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• Sorrow, the heart must bear,
  Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there.
  Many a circumstance, at least,
  Touches the very breast.
  For those
  Whom any sent away,--he knows:
  And in the live man's stead,
  Armor and ashes reach
  The house of each.

  Robert Browning

  Home, Heart, Men

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.15, Wildside Press LLC

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• Affliction is a mother,
  Whose painful throes yield many sons,
  Each fairer than the other.

  Henry Vaughan

  Mother, Son, Yield

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis LYTE (1847). “Silex scintillans, 1650. A ... facsimile”, p.31

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• What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it.

  Henry Mackenzie

  Sadness, Men, Grows

  Henry Mackenzie (1815). “The Works of Henry Mackenzie, Esq. ...: The man of feeling, and miscellaneous pieces.-v.II. The man of the world.-v.III. Julia de Roubigné”, p.20

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• We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Joy, Picks

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• The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty in form as untrue and broken as itself.

  Thomas Binney

  Dark, Broken, Soul

  Thomas Binney (1853). “Is it Possible to Make the Best of Both Worlds?: A Book for Young Men”, p.129

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• Social sorrow loses half its pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Half, Social

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.347

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• Great sorrows have no leisure to complain:
  Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain.

  William Goffe

  Grief, Complaining, Leisure

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• Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Sadness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.

  John Keats

  Beautiful, Self, Made

  John Keats (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.284

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• When you are sorrowful, look again.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Sad, Joy, Impossible

  'War and Peace' (1868-9) bk. 15, ch. 1

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• A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Crowns, Remember

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 75.

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• Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.

  Henry James

  Strong, Hard Times, May

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• Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

  Philip James Bailey

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.405

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• The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.

  John Owen

  Father, Believe, Love You

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• Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

  Meister Eckhart

  Sympathy, Depression, Light

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