SORROW QUOTES V

quotations about sorrow

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth
My old sorrow wakes and cries.

JEAN INGELOW

Song of Old Love

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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


Men die, but sorrow never dies;
The crowding years divide in vain,
And the wide world is knit with ties
Of common brotherhood in pain.

SUSAN COOLIDGE

The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey


Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow's purse is free.

RICHARD HENRY STODDARD

Persian Song

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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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I walked a mile with Sorrow
And ne'er a word said she;
But, oh, the things I learned from her
When Sorrow walked with me.

ROBERT BROWNING HAMILTON

Along the Road


I know
If we touched
We'd lose
Our sorrow

SPAIN

"If We Kissed"


I found more joy in sorrow
Than you could find in joy.

SARA TEASDALE

The Answer


When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet

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They say my tears come from the bottle that stands beside me all the time
But I wonder if they know the sorrow that always overtakes the wine

PORTER WAGONER

"Sorrow Overtakes the Wine"


The burdens of life I'll take up now,
But never my heart will they stain.
If sorrows of earth fit me for heaven,
No reason have I to complain.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"No Reason Have We to Complain"

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One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Pericles, Prince of Tyre


No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

Norwegian Wood

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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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Love sorrow. She is yours now, and you must take care of what has been given. Brush her hair, help her into her little coat, hold her hand, especially when crossing a street. For, think, what if you should lose her? Then you would be sorrow yourself; her drawn face, her sleeplessness would be yours. Take care, touch her forehead that she feel herself not so utterly alone.

MARY OLIVER

"Love Sorrow", Red Bird: Poems

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Happiness is valued only when sorrow is tasted.

KUNCHACKO BOBAN

"Two decades of Kunchacko Boban", onmanorama, August 9, 2017


Ah, don't be sorrowful, darling,
And don't be sorrowful, pray;
Taking the year together, my dear,
There isn't more night than day.

ALICE CARY

Don't Be Sorrowful, Darling


Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Anger
Misery
You'll suffer unto me
Harvester of sorrow
Language of the mad

METALLICA

"Harverster of Sorrow"


There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows;
I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of human griefs I counsel thee,
Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss:
Thou has gained, in the furnace of affliction, self-knowledge, patience and humility,
And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner:
Despise not the blessings of adversity, nor the gain thou hast earned so hardly,
And now thou hast drained the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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