SORROW QUOTES II
quotations about sorrow
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
ADONIRAM JUDSON GORDON
"The Sighs of Jesus", Grace and Glory: Sermons for the Life that Now is and that which is to Come
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
Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON
Every Man in his Humour
All this joy, all this sorrow
All this promise, all this pain
Such is life, such is being
Such is spirit, such is love
JOHN DENVER
"All This Joy"
Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutterball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.
STEPHEN KING
Carrie
I am grieved at your sorrow, although it will hereafter be a source of joy unto you. The purest water runs from the hardest rock.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations
Whate'er there be of Sorrow
I'll put off till To-morrow,
And when To-morrow comes, why then
'T will be To-day and Joy again.
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
"The Word", Songs of Cheer
A sorrow's crown of sorrow
Is remembering happier things.
ALFRED TENNYSON
Locksley Hall
I love the friendly faces of old sorrows;
I have no secrets that they do not know.
KARLE WILSON BAKER
Burning Bush
Sorrow is one of the gifts which folly has earned for itself.
CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH DANIEL SCHUBART
attributed, Day's Collacon
How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! It makes felicity in others seem deformed.
WILLIAM DAVENANT
attributed, Day's Collacon
Sorrow like rain makes roses and mud.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Sorrow is an evil with many feet.
POSIDIPPUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
EUDORA WELTY
"The Wide Net"
That thorny path, those stormy skies,
Have drawn our spirits nearer;
And rendered us, by sorrow's ties,
Each to the other dearer.
BERNARD BARTON
Not Ours the Vows
There would be far less suffering amongst mankind, if men -- and God knows why they are so fashioned -- did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
Words Under the Words
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age: youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
O. HENRY
"The Count and the Wedding Guest"