Sorrow Quotes

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break."

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."

Kahlil Gibran

"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow."

Leo Tolstoy

"Sorrow makes us all children again – destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing."

"The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced."

Washington Irving

"Into each life some rain must fall."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Where there is sorrow there is holy ground."

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too?"

William Blake

"Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it."

Victor Hugo

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."

Kahlil Gibran

"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked."

Kahlil Gibran

"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

"Sorrow makes us all children again – destroys all differences of intellect."

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

Dante Alighieri

"In sorrow everyone remembers God; in joy no one does. If one remembered in joy, why would sorrow ever come?"

Kabir

"Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving."

Alan Paton

"Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth."

Lord Byron

"Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest."

"Sorrow comes in great waves... but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain."

Henry James

"When one grows used to sorrow, sorrow fades away; so many hardships fell upon me that they became easy."

Mirza Ghalib

"The heart is not hopeless, only defeated; long is the evening of sorrow, but it is only an evening."

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

"Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it."

Samuel Johnson

"I am a cloud of sorrow, filled with tears."

Mahadevi Varma

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions."