Quotations About Sorrows II

似水流年 (sorrow quotes)



Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal. ~ Honore de Balzac

Sorrow, the heart must bear,
Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there.
Many a circumstance, at least,
Touches the very breast.
For those
Whom any sent away,--he knows:
And in the live man's stead,
Armor and ashes reach
The house of each.
~ Robert Browning


Nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
~ Philip James Bailey


Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.
~ Oscar Wilde


Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
~ John Webster

Whatever, below God, is the object of our love, will, at some time or other, be the matter of our sorrow. ~ Richard Cecil


It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest. ~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin


Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of heaven. ~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin


It is with sorrows, as with countries, each man has his own. ~ Francois August Rene de Chateaubriand


Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths. ~ Philip James Bailey


Past sorrows, let us moderately lament them;
For those to come, seek wisely to prevent them. ~ John Webster


Thou canst not tell how rich a dowry sorrow gives the soul, how firm a faith and eagle sight of God. ~ Henry Alford


Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.
~ Henry Ward Beecher


Sorrow makes men sincere. ~ Henry Ward Beecher


Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying. ~ Henry Ward Beecher


The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown. ~ William Cowper


Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease. ~ Philip James Bailey


Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear as the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts that work no harm do terrify us more than men in steel with woody purpose. ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich


Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
That has been and may be again. ~ William Wordsworth


Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas


Sorrow preys upon
Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it
From its sad visions of the other world
Than calling it at moments back to this.
The busy have no time for tears.
~ Lord Byron