Quotes with sorrow

  • There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
  • Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
  • People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
  • In sorrow there is no rhyme. Dream the kind of a life that you will find 
 The kind of love that lasts forever. 
 Dream the kind of a life that you will find 
 The kind of love that lasts forever. In heaven there is no time.
  • Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
  • You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.
  • We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
  • With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
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  • Thomas Moore Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
    Thomas Moore
    Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson I hold it true, whatever befall;
    I feel it, when I sorrow most;
    'Tis better to have loved and lost
    Than never to have loved at all.
    In Memoriam A. H. H.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Agatha Christie I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
    An Autobiography (1977)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Becky Stark In sorrow there is no rhyme. Dream the kind of a life that you will find
    The kind of love that lasts forever.
    Dream the kind of a life that you will find
    The kind of love that lasts forever. In heaven there is no time.
    Cavalry of Light In Heaven There Is No Heat
    Becky Stark
    American artist,  singer and entertainer
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  • Henry Louis Mencken In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Amelia Barr It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Sean O'Casey Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • John Ruskin Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Lao-Tzu Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Robert Frost My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Publilius Syrus Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • August Strindberg Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real ''horror vacuum.''
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Samuel Johnson Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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