Sorrows - Quotes

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. - Arthur Schopenhauer

All sorrows are less with bread. - Miguel de Cervantes

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life. - Unknown

I am grieved at your sorrow, although it will hereafter be a source of joy unto you. The purest water runs from the hardest rock. - Walter Savage Landor

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bittered agony because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to expect it. - Abraham Lincoln 

No sorrows befall him who has nothing. - Unknown

Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. - Jean Paul Richter

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow. - Cormac McCarthy

The sorrows of other men seem to us like clouds of rain that empty themselves in the distance, and whose long-travelling thunder comes to us mellowed and subdued; but our own troubles are like a storm bursting right overhead, and sending down its bolts upon us with direct plunge. - Henry Ward Beecher

There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome. - Jacqueline Carey

There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.  - Dante Alighieri

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 to have recovered hope. - George Eliot

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. - Alfred De Musset

Two thirds of all sorrow is home-made and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary. - Aldous Huxley

When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other. - Emile Zola

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. - Confucius