quotations about sorrow
Great things can rise from fetid pits of wanton death and sorrow.
PETE ABRAMS
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Sluggy Freelance, December 22, 2017
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth
My old sorrow wakes and cries.
JEAN INGELOW
Song of Old Love
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.
HORACE
Epistles
The echoes of my voice
Follow me down
The shadows I cast
Follow me down
Deeper I'm falling
Into the arms of sorrow
Blindly descending
Into the arms of sorrow
The demons of my own design
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE
"The Arms of Sorrow"
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Can calm despair and wild unrest
Be tenants of a single breast,
Or sorrow such a changeling be?
ALFRED TENNYSON
In Memoriam
In my time of sorrow,
In my time of feeling bad
Oh what I'd give
Just to relive
All of the good times that I've had.
MARIANNE FAITHFUL
"In My Time of Sorrow"
I know
If we touched
We'd lose
Our sorrow
SPAIN
"If We Kissed"
Two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Island
I walked a mile with Sorrow
And ne'er a word said she;
But, oh, the things I learned from her
When Sorrow walked with me.
ROBERT BROWNING HAMILTON
Along the Road
Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
JOHN WEBSTER
The Duchess of Malfi
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
Our days and nights
Have sorrows woven with delights.
FRANÇOIS DE MALHERBE
To Cardinal Richelieu
All sorrows are less with bread.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.
PHILIP SIDNEY
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Light sorrows speak, but deeper ones are dumb.
SENECA
Hippolytus
It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
MADAME SWETCHINE
"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine
When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
ÉMILE ZOLA
La Bête Humaine
They say my tears come from the bottle that stands beside me all the time
But I wonder if they know the sorrow that always overtakes the wine
PORTER WAGONER
"Sorrow Overtakes the Wine"