1,508 Quotes About Sorrow

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

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.

When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.

To revive sorrow is cruel.

I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow

In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.

Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?