1,508 Quotes About Sorrow

While fun is desirable, regret is quite the opposite.

Stay away from any minute of joy that can bring you a lifetime of sorrow.

Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”But I say unto you, they are inseparable.Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Don’t feel bad about feeling bad. Don’t be frightened of feeling afraid. Don’t be angry about getting angry. There is no need to give up when we are feeling depressed. Nor should we be dismayed at the grief which often accompanies the outgrowing of anything which needs outgrowing. We can be glad that our soul is speaking to us and pushing us onwards. We frequently need to persevere with a period of inner turmoil before the dust can settle and be swept out the door.

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

I know that there will be solace for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances.

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

...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.

Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien