quotations about sorrow
A scrap of sorrow, like a bird, lights on the heart.
I carry this in my body, seed
in an unswept corner, husk-encowled and seeming safe.
But they guard me, these small pains,
from growing sure
of myself and perhaps forgetting.
JANE HIRSHFIELD
"To Hear the Falling World"
Our days and nights
Have sorrows woven with delights.
FRANÇOIS DE MALHERBE
To Cardinal Richelieu
Sorrow's child sits by the river
Sorrow's child hears not the water
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
"Sorrow's Child"
Drownin' your sorrows only irrigates 'em.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
RITA MAE BROWN
Riding Shotgun
Past sorrows, let us moderately lament them;
For those to come, seek wisely to prevent them.
JOHN WEBSTER
The Duchess of Malfi
Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Not to sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of sunshine.
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS
Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.
HORATIUS BONAR
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
Where sorrow lieth buried
The greenest herbage springs.
CAROLINE SPENCER
"Afterward"
Anger
Misery
You'll suffer unto me
Harvester of sorrow
Language of the mad
METALLICA
"Harverster of Sorrow"
Confound not sorrow, which is divine and high, with trouble, which is menial and frivolous.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
Essays
Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams;
And sorrow tracketh wrong,
As echo follows song.
HARRIET MARTINEAU
Hymn
Sorrow like a ceaseless rain
Beats upon my heart.
People twist and scream in pain--
Dawn will find them still again;
This has neither wax nor wane,
Neither stop nor start.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
"Sorrow"
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
E. M. FORSTER
A Room with a View
Lay down your sorrows,
Let me carry them awhile
Cast off your sadness,
And I'll lend you a smile
You've traveled such a long way
Searchin' for the light
Lay down your sorrows
And lay with me tonight
JOHNNY WINTER
"Lay Down Your Sorrows"
Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
The Prophet