1,508 Quotes About Sorrow

From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.

A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.

Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.

Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

the snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.