Quotations About Sorrows I

Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break. ~ William Shakespeare


Great sorrows have no leisure to complain:
Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain. ~ William Goffe


Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies. ~ Giuseppe Mazzini


We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys. ~ Owen Felltham


There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery. ~ Dante


Great sorrows cannot speak. ~ Dr. John Donne


The capacity of sorrow belongs to our grandeur, and the loftiest of our race are those who have had the profoundest sympathies, because they have had the profoundest sorrows. ~ Henry Giles


As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase. ~ George Horace Lorimer


Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow! ~ Madame Guyon


Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
~ George Eliot


To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair. ~ George Eliot


Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan. ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt


The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart. ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt


Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well. ~ Leigh Hunt


From the very summit of his sorrows, where he had gone to die, Moses, for the first time in his life, caught a view of the land of Canaan. He did not know, as he went over the rocks, torn and weary, how lovely the prospect was from the top. In this world, it frequently happens that when man has reached the place of anguish, God rolls away the mist from his eyes, and the very spot selected as the receptacle of his tears, becomes the place of his highest rapture. ~ Joel Tyler Headley


In the bitter waves of woe,
Beaten and tossed about
By the sullen winds which blow
From the desolate shores of doubt.
~ Washington Gladden