Sorrow Quotes

“Sorrow is the lot of all, and pride and anger are the punishers of all.”

“Sing unto my roundelay, O! drop the briny tear with me, Dance no more at holiday, Like a running river be.”

“For I have troubles that only time erases, and that leave no memories in the heart.”

“Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.”

“What need have I for memory, when I have forgot to weep?”

“Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad.”

“Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away.”

“The sun for sorrow shines not a whit the clearer.”

“I promised myself I would never sing of sorrow, but I have sung of sorrow.”

“For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.”

“Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away.”

“Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.”

“Time, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran.”

“Anger, in hasty words or blows, Itself discharges on our foes; And sorrow, too, finds some relief In tears, which wait upon our grief.”

“Sorrow is shadow to life, moving where life doth move.”

“There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.”

“Grief is a great dignifier.”

“Tears are the silent language of grief.”

“Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest.”

“The sweets of love are washed with tears.”