SORROW QUOTES V

quotations about sorrow

One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Pericles, Prince of Tyre


Time is the physician of every sorrow.

EUPHRON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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I know
If we touched
We'd lose
Our sorrow

SPAIN

"If We Kissed"


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

ALFRED TENNYSON

In Memoriam

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Happiness is valued only when sorrow is tasted.

KUNCHACKO BOBAN

"Two decades of Kunchacko Boban", onmanorama, August 9, 2017


I walked a mile with Sorrow
And ne'er a word said she;
But, oh, the things I learned from her
When Sorrow walked with me.

ROBERT BROWNING HAMILTON

Along the Road


When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.

ÉMILE ZOLA

La Bête Humaine

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I found more joy in sorrow
Than you could find in joy.

SARA TEASDALE

The Answer


The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

HORACE

Epistles


Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Macbeth

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Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

JOHN WEBSTER

The Duchess of Malfi


Great things can rise from fetid pits of wanton death and sorrow.

PETE ABRAMS

Sluggy Freelance, December 22, 2017

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Sorrows are like thunderclouds--in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Hesperus


The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.

PHILIP SIDNEY

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

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Ah, don't be sorrowful, darling,
And don't be sorrowful, pray;
Taking the year together, my dear,
There isn't more night than day.

ALICE CARY

Don't Be Sorrowful, Darling


Men die, but sorrow never dies;
The crowding years divide in vain,
And the wide world is knit with ties
Of common brotherhood in pain.

SUSAN COOLIDGE

The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey


In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bittered agony because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to expect it.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

letter to Fanny McCullough, December 23, 1862

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It is with men as with trees: if you lop off their finest branches, into which they were pouring their young life-juice, the wounds will be healed over with some rough boss, some odd excresence; and what might have been a grand tree expanding into liberal shade, is but a whimsical misshapen trunk. Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow, which has crushed and maimed the nature just when it was expanding into plenteous beauty; and the trivial erring life which we visit with our harsh blame, may be but as the unsteady motion of a man whose best limb is withered.

GEORGE ELIOT

Mr. Gilfil's Love Story


Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow's purse is free.

RICHARD HENRY STODDARD

Persian Song

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