Sorrow Quotes

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.

Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow - it is not a permanent rest stop.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

As high as we have mounted in delight
In our dejection do we sink as low.

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh....

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.