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Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
- Where sorrow lieth buried
- The greenest herbage springs.
CAROLINE SPENCER, "Afterward"
The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, — the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, Table-Talk
- In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
- But my sorrows they'd learned to swim
U2, "Until the End of the World"
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, A Defence of Poetry
Sorrow does not predicate annihilation, but development. There is compensation in all things around us. There must be in this experience. The real counterstroke to the pulse of mortal anguish is not the full stop of death, but the vibration of immortality.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
Sorrow like rain makes roses and mud.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
- Life's joys and sorrows meet us every day,
- But some are blinded by their tears of sorrow
- And see no joy.
Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together.
NEIL GAIMAN, American Gods
Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, Table-Talk
Sorrows bring us closer to God than joys.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
- One drop of sorrow heals the troubled heart
- More than a thousand tongues of consolation.
ROBERT LEIGHTON, "At the Grave of Margaret"
- Sorrow like a ceaseless rain
- Beats upon my heart.
- People twist and scream in pain--
- Dawn will find them still again;
- This has neither wax nor wane,
- Neither stop nor start.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, "Sorrow"
The sorrows of other men seem to us like clouds of rain that empty themselves in the distance, and whose long-travelling thunder comes to us mellowed and subdued; but our own troubles are like a storm bursting right overhead, and sending down its bolts upon us with direct plunge.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Life Thoughts
- Though sore oppressed with worldly cares and strife,
- I still return a smile unto my fate,
- And feel amidst the trials which crown my life
- A thankful sense for this my worldly state;
- For had I all I wished, a wish were vain,
- And I had for a gift no pleasure felt.
- Nay, with a sorrow let the world remain,
- For joy ne'er reigned where sorrow had not dwelt.
ANTHONY LISLE, The Westminster Review, Jan. 1914
The gods themselves are not for ever glad. The ineffaceable, sad birth-mark in the brow of man, is but the stamp of sorrow in the signers.
HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby Dick
Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, Hyperion
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
CORMAC MCCARTHY, All the Pretty Horses
- As long as skies are blue, and fields are green,
- Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow,
- Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Adonais
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