Sorrow Quotes - Page 6

• It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

  Amelia Barr

  Inspiration, Positive Attitude, Sunny Weather

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.173, Litres

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

  Alfred de Musset

  Sad, Happy, Remember

  "Le Saule" by Alfred de Musset,

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• The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

  Horace

  Gay, Sorrowful, Dislike

  "Epistles", I. 18. 89, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 733-36, 1922.

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• Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Sympathy, Condolences, Wine

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• The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

  Washington Irving

  Condolences, Mind, Natural

  Washington Irving (1840). “The Works of Washington Irving”, p.245

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• But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Moon, Heartbreaking, Dawn

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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• Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Real, Condolences, Mind

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.282, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

  Steven Tyler

  Grief, Awakening, Sometimes

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• It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Motivational, Strength, Wisdom

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• Earth may embitter, not remove,
  The love divinely given;
  And e'en that mortal grief shall prove
  The immortality of love,
  And lead us nearer heaven.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Grief, Heaven, Earth

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1838). “The seraphim, and other poems, by E.B. Barrett”, p.360

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• As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Christian, Sweet, Song

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• Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy.
  [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]

  Sophie Arnould

  Unhappy, Good Times

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• The busy have no time for tears.

  Lord Byron

  Time, Tears, Literature

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

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

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Night, Hours

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

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• The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.

  William Cowper

  Sadness, Land, Path

  William Cowper (1835). “The Poems of William Cowper ...”, p.386

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• Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

  Charles Dickens

  Abstinence, Remains, Renunciation

  "The Mill on the Floss". Book by Charles Dickens, 1860.

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• Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sad, Song, Musical

  "To a Skylark" l. 88 (1819)

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• No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Faith, God, Christian

  "We Believe: Doctrines and Principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". Book by Rulon T. Burton, p. 10, 1994.

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• True sorrow is as rare as true love.

  Stephen King

  Im Sorry, I Am Sorry, Being Sorry

  Stephen King (1974). “Carrie: A Novel of a Girl with a Frightening Power”, Scarborough, Ont. : New American Library of Canada

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

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Pleasure

  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

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• Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

  Jean Paul

  Break Up, Nature, Air

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• Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Happiness, Sad

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• Sorrow makes us all children again -
  destroys all differences of intellect.
  The wisest know nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sad, Children, Condolences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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• The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 24, 2014

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• It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moving On, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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