1,508 Quotes About Sorrow
- Author Kahlil Gibran
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Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.
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- Author Ana Claudia Antunes
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Don"t gaze too hard at your belly button Or you will unexpectedly hit rock bottom!
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- Author William Goldman
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You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.
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- Author Roman Payne
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I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but they were not limitless. When one starts thinking of the full moon as a common sight that will come again to one’s eyes ad-infinitum, the value of life is diminished and life goes by uncherished. ‘This may be my last moon,’ I sighed, feeling a sudden sweep of sorrow; and went back to reading more of The Odyssey.
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- Author Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Searching my heart for its true sorrow,This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and people, Sick of the city, wanting the sea
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- Author Vikram Chandra
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Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.''Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.''When are we happy?''When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.''What is regret?''To realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.''What is sorrow?''To long for the past.''What is the highest pleasure?''To hear a good story.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.
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- Author Kahlil Gibran
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Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. Solitude is the ally of sorry as well as a companion of spiritual exaltation.
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- Author Patrick O'Brian
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Love, sorrow, and wealth are the three things that cannot be concealed.
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