Top Sorrow Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Sorrow quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Paullina Simons
Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.
- Paullina Simons
Collection: Sorrow
Image of Alan Paton
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
- Alan Paton
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Image of Koushun Takami
One thing was absolutely certain—it was a given for Kazuo. Although he might not have particularlyrealized it, or more appropriately, perhaps because he was incapable of coming to such a realization, this was what it came down to: he, Kazuo Kiriyama, felt no emotion, no guilt, no sorrow, no pity, towards the four corpses, including Mitsuru's—and that ever since the day he was dropped into this world theway he was, he had never once felt a single emotion.
- Koushun Takami
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Image of Ian Caldwell
Hope...which is whispered from PAndora's box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is onl time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.
- Ian Caldwell
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Image of Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
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Image of John Suckling
Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.
- John Suckling
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Image of Lisa Ann Sandell
Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. ~Song of the Sparrow
- Lisa Ann Sandell
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Image of Christopher Pike
You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.
- Christopher Pike
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Image of Helen Steiner Rice
Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow.
- Helen Steiner Rice
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Image of Eddie Vedder
The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.
- Eddie Vedder
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Image of Francesca Lia Block
Stories are like genies...They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like genies, everyone has one. Like genies, sometimes we forget that we do. Our stories can set us free...When we set them free.
- Francesca Lia Block
Collection: Sorrow
Image of Alexandre Dumas-fils
We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal.
- Alexandre Dumas-fils
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Image of William Saroyan
In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.
- William Saroyan
Collection: Sorrow
Image of Harold Bell Wright
There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.
- Harold Bell Wright
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Image of Anthony Trollope
For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.
- Anthony Trollope
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Image of Sergei Lukyanenko
Great knowledge brings great sorrow.
- Sergei Lukyanenko
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Image of John Henry Newman
I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.
- John Henry Newman
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Image of William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
- William Mountford
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Image of Richard Cecil
In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.
- Richard Cecil
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Image of Maria W. Stewart
Come all ye that pass by, and see if there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow.
- Maria W. Stewart
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Image of Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.
- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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Image of Belva Plain
... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.
- Belva Plain
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Image of John Henry Jowett
It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.
- John Henry Jowett
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Image of Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow!
- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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Image of Sarada Devi
We have to surrender ourselves completely to the Lord with faith and devotion in Him, serve others to the best of our capacity, and never be a source of sorrow to anybody.
- Sarada Devi
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Image of Dorothy Richardson
Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty.
- Dorothy Richardson
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Image of Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and sorrow; and happy is it if the last can cure the mischief which the former work. When afflictions fail to have their due effect, the case is desperate.
- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
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Image of Jane Frances de Chantal
... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation.
- Jane Frances de Chantal
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Image of Ivan Panin
Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.
- Ivan Panin
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Image of Fitz-Greene Halleck
I sorrow that all fair things must decay.
- Fitz-Greene Halleck
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Image of Peter Damian
The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill the duties of everyday with exactitude and to study and work with all our strength.
- Peter Damian
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Image of Georges Rodenbach
The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.
- Georges Rodenbach
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Image of Trevor Hall
Whatever path you follow push on till tomorrow, Love all, Serve all, and Create no sorrow.
- Trevor Hall
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Image of Georg Ebers
Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.
- Georg Ebers
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Image of Leonard Cohen
I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.
- Leonard Cohen
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Image of Arthur Hopkins
There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might have been said or might have been done that never can be said or done.
- Arthur Hopkins
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Image of William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
- William Davenant
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Image of Sophie Arnould
Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy.
- Sophie Arnould
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Image of Odetta
The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
- Odetta
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Image of Percy Grainger
The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.
- Percy Grainger
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Image of Walter Wangerin
Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.
- Walter Wangerin
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Image of Jean-Francois Ducis
My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.
- Jean-Francois Ducis
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Image of Rosellen Brown
The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.
- Rosellen Brown
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Image of Frances Sargent Osgood
Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the world-sirens that lure us to ill
- Frances Sargent Osgood
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Image of Gary Jules
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow / No tomorrow, no tomorrow.
- Gary Jules
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Image of Mishka
Acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh pervails completely over the spirit. You don't just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don't care, and you don't care that you don't care.
- Mishka
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Image of Marie Brennan
But coming to terms with one’s sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.
- Marie Brennan
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