140 Sorrow Love Quotes

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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal. — Nina Simone

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious. - Samuel Richardson

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious. — Samuel Richardson

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. — Robert Frost

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. — Lord Byron

Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell. — Joni Mitchell

Sorrow makes us children again. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering. — Townes Van Zandt

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. — Kahlil Gibran

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

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand. — Rumi

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. — Pearl Bailey

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope. — Bruce Lee

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love. — Stephen King

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache. — Elif Safak

Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief. — Rumi

Short Sorrow Love Quotes

  • The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass. — Epictetus
  • There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. — Dante Alighieri
  • Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. — Victor Hugo
  • And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour — Richard Paul Evans
  • Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. — Christian Nevell Bovee
  • Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. — Thomas Aquinas
  • Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow. — Li Bai

Top 10 Sorrow Love Quotes

Tears are words the heart can't express - Gerard Way

Tears are words the heart can't express — Gerard Way

I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky. — John Denver

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. — Jeremy Taylor

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. - Buddha

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. — Buddha

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh. — Rumi

One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face. — William Butler Yeats

Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy. — Mother Teresa

Grief is itself a medicine. — William Cowper

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price. — Paulo Coelho

The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you. — John Owen

Sorrow Love Image Quotes

Sorrow love quote Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.

Death Of True Love Quotes

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Death ends a life, not a relationship. — Jack Lemmon

Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It's like the end of the world. — Lana Del Rey

Sorrow love quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected. — Sogyal Rinpoche

THE ART OF PEACE does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead, we put ourselves in tune with the universe, maintain peace in our own realms, nurture life, and prevent death and destruction. The true meaning of the term samurai is one who serves and adheres to the power of love. — Morihei Ueshiba

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart. — Willie Morris

Sorrow love quote Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.

I'm sure lots of people would love to ridicule me when I say this, but it is true: many people die from cold related deaths every winter, and here are studies that say that climate change in certain areas of the world would help those individuals. — Dana Perino

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. — Henri B. Stendhal

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. — Stendhal

Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. But, either it was different in blood,- Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,- Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it. — William Shakespeare

Sad Love Quotes

beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living. — Bob Marley

How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that does not know what it is to be drunk with love. If you are not in love, how can you enjoy the blinding light of the sun, the soft light of the moon? — Omar Khayyam

On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . . — Mother Teresa

Sorrow love quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel. — Johnny Depp

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. - A. A. Milne

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. — A. A. Milne

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be. - William Wordsworth

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be. — William Wordsworth

Sorrow love quote If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.

Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. — Jim Henson

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. — Mother Teresa

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter. — Bertolt Brecht

All good things must come to an end. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Life Sorrow Quotes

After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace. — Helen Steiner Rice

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow. - Coolio

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow. — Coolio

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. — Lao Tzu

Sorrow love quote To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again. — Marcel Proust

The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown. — James Stewart

The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist. - Kevin Carter

The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist. — Kevin Carter

Sorrow love quote Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful. In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love — Abdu'l-Bahá

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know. - James A. Baldwin

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know. — James A. Baldwin

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other. — Naguib Mahfouz

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. — Rumi

Deep Sorrow Quotes

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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

Our pleasures are shallow, our sorrows are deep. - American Indian Proverbs

Our pleasures are shallow, our sorrows are deep. — American Indian Proverbs

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth. — Christina Rossetti

Sorrow love quote I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.

True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin. — J. C. Ryle

Every man has his secret sorrows. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In deep pain, people don't need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up. — Rick Warren

Sorrow love quote The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

When you are sorrowful, look again. — Kahlil Gibran

There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each good rain, Others are far too deep for that. — Hafez

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. — Kahlil Gibran

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction. — Tryon Edwards

Tears Of Sorrow Quotes

After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask! — Obafemi Awolowo

In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life. — Nicholas Sparks

I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Sorrow love quote Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow. — Hannah Hurnard

Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come. — Lucretia Mott

Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful. — Kahlil Gibran

Sorrow love quote A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.

Tears are the body's raindrops of emotion. — Robert M. Hensel

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers. — Kahlil Gibran

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven. — Bill Vaughan

Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Sorrow Quotes

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. — Chinese Proverbs

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. - Corrie Ten Boom

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. — Corrie Ten Boom

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. — Saint Augustine

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

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim. - Frida Kahlo

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim. — Frida Kahlo

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto. — Jacob Lawrence

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

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. — Chinese Proverbs

Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him? The individual suffers because he perceives duality. It is duality which causes all sorrow and grief. Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering. — Anandamayi Ma

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free. — Leo Buscaglia

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More Sorrow Love Quotes

What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off peal of bells at dusk! Music comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart: it is Love! Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow! — Sergei Rachmaninoff

I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri

Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly — Kahlil Gibran

Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master. — Buddha

But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For love of money is the root of all of evil and some having pursued its power, fall from faith and end in sorrow. — Saint Timothy

To the artist He is the one altogether lovely, and to the educator He is the master teacher. To the philosopher He is the wisdom of God, and to the lonely He is a brother; to the sorrowful, a comforter to the bereaved, the resurrection and the life. And to the sinner he is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin from the world. — John Gerstner

Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad, joy and sorrow. Now I can accept setbacks more easily, with less sense of disappointment and personal failure, because meditation has taught me how to cope with the profound truth that everything changes all the time. — Sharon Salzberg

The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love. — J. R. R. Tolkien

The relentless pull of love is a thousand times harder to fight than the tides. If you’re lucky, you’ll make it out before you drown. If you’re even luckier, you’re pulled under just long enough to wash away the sorrow. If you’re really lucky, like me, you resurface just in time to find the one you love floating right beside you. — Cassia Leo

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

When we are ready, [Jesus Christ's] pure love instantly moves across time and space, reaches down, and pulls us up from the depths of any tumultuous sea of darkness, sin, sorrow, death, or despair we may find ourselves in and brings us into the light and life and love of eternity. — John H. Groberg

If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow. — John Gray

I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep. — Gregory David Roberts

In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love. — Alexis Carrel

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. — Chuck Palahniuk

Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion — Henry B. Eyring

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them. — Leo Tolstoy

I've got life, I've got love, I've got faith & that's enough. We feel sorrow we feel pain, but there's sunshine after rain. — Jake Miller

All sorrows are less with bread. — Miguel de Cervantes

Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful. — Jeremy Taylor

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