Sayings about Sorrow
Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood. ~ Turkish Proverb
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~ Swedish Proverb
A man without a child is a king without sorrows. ~ Iranian Proverb
Happiness has its roots — sorrow has its womb. ~ Chinese Proverb
Sorrows are valuable treasures that you only show to your friends. ~ Spanish Proverb
Sorrow is the child of too much joy. ~ Chinese Proverb
If it weren’t for sorrow and bad times, every day would be Christmas. ~ Lithuanian Proverb
He who has no children has one sorrow, he who has children has a thousand sorrows. ~ Turkish Proverb
There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them. ~ Traditional Proverb
The bridge between joy and sorrow is not long. ~ German Proverb
It rains sorrow on him who is already wet. ~ Spanish Proverb
Don’t let your sorrow come higher than your knees. ~ Swedish Proverb
A child is a certain sorrow and uncertain joy. ~ Swedish Proverb
Joy and sorrow sleep in the same bed. ~ Czech Proverb
If you weep for all the sorrows in this world, in the end you will have no eyes. ~ Turkish Proverb
A married man has many sorrows — an unmarried man has one more. ~ Finnish Proverb
One does not live on joy or die of sorrow. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Sorrow doesn’t kill — reckless joy does. ~ West African Proverb
Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short. ~ English Proverbs
Who makes his bed on the morrow; goes all day without sorrow. ~ German Proverb
If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity. ~ Italian Proverb
The sight of books removes sorrows from the heart. ~ African Proverb
Who goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing. ~ Traditional Proverb
To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy. ~ Indian Proverbs
When sorrow is asleep, wake it not. ~ Romanian Proverb
Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends. ~ African Proverb
Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness. ~ Irish Proverbs
One joy can drive away a hundred sorrows. ~ Japanese Proverb
How lovely is the sun after rain, and how lovely is laughter after sorrow. ~ Tunisian Proverbs
Drink makes you forget your sorrow; but only, alas, until tomorrow. ~ German Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~ Chinese Proverb
The person who loves sorrow will always find something to moan about.~ Danish Proverbs
Sorrow doesn’t kill, but it blights. ~ Russian Proverbs
If you sow arrows, you will reap sorrows. ~ Filipino Proverb
Reading books removes sorrows from the heart. ~ Moroccan Proverbs
If sorrow would not talk it would die. ~ Croatian Proverb
The woman of a man without sorrows is almost a widow. ~ Hungarian Proverbs
Sorrow does not pay any debts. ~ German Proverb
A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy. ~ Chinese Proverb
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~ Chinese Proverb
Only through suffering and sorrow do we acquire the wisdom not found in books. ~ Japanese Proverb
Sorrow is the seed of wealth. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Sorrow is like rice in an attic: you use a little every day and at the end it is all gone. ~ Malagasy Proverb
Beauty is the eye’s food but the soul’s sorrow. ~ German Proverbs
The end of mirth is the beginning of sorrow. ~ Dutch Proverbs
Quotations about Sorrow
In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part. ~ Michael Bruce
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. ~ Thomas Moore
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ~ Jean Paul Richter
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. ~ Washington Irving
What an insidious drug memory can be. Especially the memory of unhappiness. ~ Horace Holley
And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him. ~ Arthur Hugh Clough
Joy’s recollection is no longer joy, while Sorrow’s memory is a sorrow still. ~ Lord Byron
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America. ~ Stephen B. Leacock
Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. ~ William Blake
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. ~ Confucius Quotes
A great sorrow, like a mariner’s quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.~ William Blake
Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves. ~ Ivan Panin
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings — crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow’s horizons are vague and its demands are few. ~ Larry McMurtry
The cure for sorrow is to learn something. ~ Barbara Sher
There is something in sorrow more akin to the course of human affairs than joy. ~ C. Fitzhugh
Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow. ~ Jean Paul Richter
Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think. ~ Tennessee Williams
Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman’s heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face. ~ Austin O’Malley
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age: youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same. ~ O. Henry
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
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. ~ Ovid
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth. ~ Emile Durkheim
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. ~ Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Sorrow like rain makes roses and mud. ~ Austin O’Malley
Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion. ~ Dorothy Parker
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn’t God’s will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing. ~ George Eliot
The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown. ~ William Cowper
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved. ~ Samuel Johnson
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt… doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. ~ Comte De Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse
Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another’s woe. Sorrow’s the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another. ~ Sean O’Casey
Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us. ~ Freya Stark
In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows, but my sorrows they’d learned to swim. ~ U2
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sorrow has produced more melody than mirth. ~ C. Fitzhugh
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. ~ Sophocles
True sorrow is as rare as true love. ~ Stephen King
The busy have no time for tears. ~ Lord Byron
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. ~ Lord Byron
Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man’s life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness. ~ George Holbrook Jackson
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn’t breaking. It hurts because it’s getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds. ~ Rita Mae Brown
Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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. ~ Abrahm Lincoln Quotes
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. ~ William Shakespeare Quotes
Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it. ~ Samuel Johnson Quotes
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
Life’s joys and sorrows meet us every day, but some are blinded by their tears of sorrow and see no joy. ~ S.Moore
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. ~ Samuel Johnson Quotes
One drop of sorrow heals the troubled heart more than a thousand tongues of consolation. ~ Robert Leighton
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary. ~ Aldous Huxley
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic — if it is pulled out I shall die. ~ Soren Kierkegaard
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow. ~ Cormac McCarthy
Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell. ~ Joni Mitchell