Sorrow Quotes

Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, And therein stay. Look not through the sheltering bars Upon tomorrow; God will help thee bear what comes of joy and sorrow.

Mary F. Butts

A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

Dante Alighieri

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.

Corrie Ten Boom

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

Vellupillai Pirapakaran

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories?

George Eliot

Sorrow comes to all...Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better and yet you are sure to be happy again.

Abraham Lincoln

Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell.

Joni Mitchell

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

Dorothy Parker

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Jean Paul Richter

Sorrow makes us all children again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

Samuel Johnson

Sorrow makes men sincere.

Henry Ward Beecher

They who increase knowledge, increase sorrow

Proverb