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QUOTES including the word: "sorrow"

Christina Rossetti:
  • What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.

    • Schubert:
  • Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

    • Frida Kahlo:
  • I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

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

    • Schopenhauer:
  • Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

    • Chopin:
  • Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

    • Isokratis:
  • In sloth and strenuous amusements the pleasures are followed by sorrows, but the diligence of virtue and the prudent management of life always offer pure and safer pleasures.

    • Li Bai:
  • “To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows, We drained a hundred jugs of wine.

    • Dante:
  • There is no greater sorrow Than to recall a happy time When miserable.

    • Victor Hugo:
  • Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

    • Leo Tolstoy:
  • Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

    • Remarque:
  • I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.

    • Thomas Aquinas:
  • Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine

    • Fatima Mernissi:
  • Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine

    • Laozi:
  • Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

    • Kunanbaev:
  • Forced laughter is not joy, it is sorrow.

    • Jack London:
  • Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard and to suffer sore, till old age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires. It is hard to live. In pain the babe sucks his first breath, in pain the old man gasps his last, and all his days are full of trouble and sorrow; yet he goes down to the open arms of death, stumbling, falling, with head turned backward, fighting to the last. And death is kind. It is only life and the things of life that hurt. Yet we love life and we hate death. It is very strange.

    • Kunanbaev:
  • In what we find joy, we will also find sorrow.

    • Confucius:
  • If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand

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

    • Khalil Gibran:
  • We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.