If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius
Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.
William Shakespeare
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions!
William Shakespeare
What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.
Buddha
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground
Oscar Wilde
Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood
Turkish Proverb
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake
There are some men above grief and some men below it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
The Talmud
Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
George Jackson
There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
Cicero
All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.
Miguel de Cervantes
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Philip James Bailey
Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thomas Gray