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

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