1,508 Quotes About Sorrow

The sure way to be happy is to sing.

Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, inextricably commingled, bound in pain and strewn in sorrow-crash!

Do not worry about anything right now." Eleanor smiled. "Undoubtedly, sorrows will stray onto our path, but that is the way of life. For now, let your heart feel joy. Throughout the long and wonderful years of our marriage, other and perhaps stronger evils will arise, but for now, let yourself enjoy the peace. I am certain that eventually, someday, we shall experience death. But for now, we will enjoy life.

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter,the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands,the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly!

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

You cannot truly know the sweetness of great joy without the bitterness of great sorrow.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

And I diedAs the thunder crashes-in an empty sound.(It turned my soul into a wound)My life is destroyedWithout youMy mind is destroyedWithin meI know a place where flowers bloomPlease take my hands into the woodsPlease distract me from my painIt cries loudly into my veins.