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Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

Quotes by William Gilmore Simms

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

Quotes by William Davenant

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Quotes by Washington Irving

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.

Quotes by Thomas S. Monson

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

Quotes by Thomas Hooker

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Quotes by Thomas a Kempis

My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.

Quotes by Sun Myung Moon

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Quotes by Steven Tyler

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Sophocles

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

Quotes by Sara Teasdale

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Quotes by Samuel Smiles

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Quotes by Samuel Richardson

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

Quotes by Saadi

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Quotes by Robert Greene

Partying is such sweet sorrow.

Quotes by Robert Byrne

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

Quotes by Rene Descartes

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

Quotes by Park Geun-hye

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

Quotes by P. L. Travers

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

Quotes by Meister Eckhart

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

As much sorrow and grief as came from 9/11, there have also come positives.

Quotes by Mack Wilberg

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.

Quotes by Leo Szilard

Everybody has some sorrow, worry, and everybody asks God for help.

Quotes by Karolyn Grimes

Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

Quotes by Karl Amadeus Hartmann

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

Quotes by Joseph Butler

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

Quotes by Joseph Butler

The consequences of ignoring the Lord and His prophets are certain and often accompanied by great sorrow and regret.

Quotes by Joseph B. Wirthlin

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

Quotes by Joni Mitchell

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

Quotes by John Strachan

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.

Quotes by John A. Logan

Genius is sorrow's child.

Quotes by John Adams

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Quotes by Jean Paul

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.

Quotes by Jean Ingelow

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

Quotes by James Russell Lowell

One of the hardest things I do as FBI Director is call the chiefs and sheriffs in departments around the nation when officers have been killed in the line of duty. I call to express my sorrow and offer the FBI's help.

Quotes by James Comey

When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.

Quotes by Irvin Mayfield

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

Herman Melville

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

Quotes by Herbert Hoover

The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.

Quotes by Henry B. Eyring

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Quotes by Helen Hunt Jackson

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

Quotes by Goran Persson

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

George Eliot

In everybody's life, there is love, there is sorrow, there is melancholy. And there might be danger as well.

Quotes by Gautham Menon

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

Quotes by Franz Schubert

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

Quotes by Franz Schubert

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.

Quotes by Frances Burney

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

Quotes by Felix Dennis

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Quotes by Fay Weldon

I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

Quotes by Emmeline Pankhurst

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

Quotes by Elizabeth McCracken

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

Quotes by Dan Colen

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

Quotes by Charles Spurgeon

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Quotes by Charles Churchill

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

Quotes by Billy Sunday

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Quotes by Barbara Sher

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Quotes by Ann Landers

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Quotes by Andrei Platonov

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

Quotes by Amelia Barr

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

Quotes by Alfred de Musset

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

Quotes by Alexandre Vinet

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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