Quotes and Sayings About Sorrow
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They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.
-- A. E. Housman -
If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is enough if he's well-versed only in raagas and techniques. Instead, he should be a knowledgeable person interested in life and philosophy. In his personal life there should be, atleast in some corner of his heart, a tinge of lingering sorrow.
-- A. R. Rahman -
[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
-- A.J. Cronin -
Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.
-- Aaron Hill -
Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.
-- Abby May Alcott -
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
-- Aberjhani -
To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter -
Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter -
Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.
-- Adi Shankara -
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
-- Adi Shankara -
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
-- Adoniram Judson Gordon -
To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived..
-- Agatha Christie -
the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.
-- Agnes Sligh Turnbull -
In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.
-- Al-Ghazali -
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
-- Alan Paton -
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
-- Alan Paton -
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
-- Albert Pike -
...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
-- Alexander Smith -
...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
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 -
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
-- Alexandre Vinet -
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
-- Alfred Adler -
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
-- Alfred de Musset -
Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson
