Sorrow Quotes

Shared sorrow is half sorrow

Danish Proverb

Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the most sorrow upon themselves

Euripides

Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.

Dorothy Parker

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Victor Hugo

Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends

African Proverb

Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors

German Proverb

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Jean Paul Richter

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

Marcus T. Cicero

Sorrow makes us children again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Oscar Wilde

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine

St. Thomas Aquinas

Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.

George Henry Borrow

Distant or near, in joy or in sorrow, each in the other sees his true helper to brotherly freedom.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Thus while I journey on, my Lord to meet,My thoughts and meditations are so sweet,Of Him on whom I lean, my strength, my stay,I can forget the sorrows of the way.

Horatius Bonar
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