SORROW

Related Subjects: Consolation, Depression, Desolation, Despair, Grief, Loss, Melancholy, Mourning, Regret, Tears, Soul, Sympathy, Woe

1. Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there
   be any sorrow like unto my sorrow.—Bible, Lamentations 1:12
   

2. I am lorn with-outen remedye.—CHAUCER, Canterbury Tales
   

3. You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.—Chinese Proverb
   

4. The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
   Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.—COWPER, To an Afflicted Protestant Lady in France
   

5. Sadness is a wall between two gardens.—KAHLIL GIBRAN, Sand and Foam
   

6. The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal, every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open; this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.—WASHINGTON IRVING, The Sketch-Book
   

7. Hang sorrow ! care'll kill a cat.—BEN JONSON, Every Man in His Humour
   

8. Into each life some rain must fall,
   Some days must be dark and dreary.—LONGFELLOW, The Rainy Day
   

9. There is no flock, however watched and tended,
   But one dead lamb is there!
   There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended,
   But has one vacant chair!—LONGFELLOW, Resignation
   

10. There is no greater sorrow
    Than to be mindful of the happy time
    In misery.—LONGFELLOW, Inferno
    

11. Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.—LONGFELLOW
    

12. This is life's sorrow:
    That one can be happy only where two are;
    And that our hearts are drawn to stars
    Which want us not.—EDGAR LEE MASTERS, Spoon River Anthology
    

13. Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.—ROBERT POLLOK, The Course of Time
    

14. Better two losses than one sorrow.—Proverb
    

15. It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another human being creates a bond which nothing seems able to break. People can be happy together and look back on their contacts very pleasantly, but such contacts will not make the same kind of bond that sorrow lived through together will create.—ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
    

16. When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
    But in battalions.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

17. A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

18. Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
    

19. Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
    Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
    

20. Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,
    Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
    

21. We look before and after,
    And pine for what is not;
    Our sincerest laughter
    With some pain is fraught;
    Our sweetest songs are those that tell
    Of saddest thought.—SHELLEY, To a Skylark
    

22. Each time we love,
    We turn a nearer and a broader mark
    To that keen archer,
    Sorrow, and he strikes.—ALEXANDER SMITH, A Boy's Dream
    

23. Sadness diminishes or hinders a man's power of action.—SPINOZA, Ethics
    

24. Never morning wore
    To evening, but some heart did break.—TENNYSON, In Memoriam
    

25. Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.—OSCAR WILDE, De Profundis