Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.
Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.
Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.
I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin
Sorrow can be a bully.
Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.
for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. (Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)
Tears and sorrows and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life: some for our manifest good, and ail, therefore, it is trusted, for our good concealed;--for our final and greatest good.
I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.
None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.
Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.
Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.
Where I would like to discover facts, I find fancy. Where I would like to learn what I did, I learn only what I was thinking. Theyare loaded with opinion, moral thoughts, quick evaluations, youthful hopes and cares and sorrows. Occasionally, they manage to report something in exquisite honesty and accuracy. That is why I have refrained from burning them.
When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.
Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.