sorrow quotes

• Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. (William Blake) [sorrow/joy]
• Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals and is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, and if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight. (William Blake) [happiness/sorrow]
• Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. (William Blake) [sorrow/joy]
• Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. (Thomas Carlyle) [age/matter/sorrow/matter]
• It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. (Miguel De Cervantes) [sorrow]
• There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends. (Miguel De Cervantes) [strange/thoughts/sorrow/men]
• There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow. (Marcus Cicero) [pleasure/past/sorrow]
• We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. ( Confucius) [sorrow]
• 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) [absolute/sorrow]
• The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender. (George Eliot) [nature/sorrow/form/imagination]
• Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. (George Eliot) [sorrow/sorrow]
• Sorrow makes us children again. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [sorrow]
• Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [sorrow/intellect]
• He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. (Benjamin Franklin) [family/sorrow/pleasure]
• Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [joy/sorrow]
• The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. (Washington Irving) [sorrow/mind]
• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal -- every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open -- this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. (Washington Irving) [sorrow/sorrow/forget/solitude]
• Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. (Samuel Johnson) [sorrow/life/exercise/motion]
• Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it. (Samuel Johnson) [sorrow/activity/willpower]
• There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved. (Samuel Johnson) [wisdom/sorrow/virtue]
• Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [enjoyment/sorrow/find]
• Sorrow is the great idealizer. (James Lowell) [sorrow]
• Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell. (Joni Mitchell) [sorrow]
• Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. ( Ovid) [sorrow/willpower/day]
• Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion. (Dorothy Parker) [sorrow]
• I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change. (John Ruskin) [look/capital/sorrow/roots]
• The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. ( Saadi) [sorrow]
• Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart? (William Shakespeare) [mind/memory/sorrow/brain]
• Parting is such sweet sorrow. (William Shakespeare) [sorrow]
• 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. (Samuel Smiles) [thoughts/sorrow]
• Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. (Henry David Thoreau) [sorrow/interest]

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