Sorrows Quotes

Quotations list about sorrows, bitterness and grieve citing Chinese Proverbs, Chinese Proverbs and Corrie Ten Boom

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

    — Chinese Proverbs
    434
  • 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
    163
  • Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

    — Corrie Ten Boom
    50
  • Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

    — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    42
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  • Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell.

    — Joni Mitchell
    36
  • Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will--tomorrow!

    — Gloria Pitzer
    23
  • Sorrow makes us children again.

    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
    21
  • We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

    — Confucius
    20
  • We need never be ashamed of our tears.

    — Charles Dickens
    20
  • It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.

    — Marcus Tullius Cicero
    17
  • In sorrow we must go, but not in despair.

    Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.

    — J. R. R. Tolkien
    17
  • There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

    — Proverbs
    14
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  • Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

    — Dirk Benedict
    14
  • In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

    — Bible
    13
  • There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.

    — Dante Alighieri
    12
  • There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

    — Marcus Tullius Cicero
    11
  • Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today.

    — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    10
  • When I wished to sing of love it turned to sorrow.

    And when I wished to sing of sorrow it was transformed for me into love.

    — Franz Schubert
    10
  • Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

    — Horace
    10
  • Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.

    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
    10
  • Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

    — Dorothy Parker
    10
  • Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.

    — Bible
    9
  • Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

    — Joni Mitchell
    9
  • 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
    8
  • Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

    — Unknown
    7
  • Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

    — Publilius Syrus
    7
  • Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

    — Ovid
    7
  • Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

    — William Shakespeare
    7
  • Parting is such sweet sorrow.

    — William Shakespeare
    6
  • To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.

    — Johnson
    6
  • Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

    — Oscar Wilde
    6
  • We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

    — Abraham Lincoln
    5
  • Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

    — Lord Byron
    5
  • Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.

    — J. C. Macaulay
    5
  • Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.

    — Corrie Ten Boom
    5
  • Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.

    — Swedish Proverbs
    5
  • Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

    — William Blake
    4
  • Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.

    — Samuel Johnson
    4
  • Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

    — William Blake
    4
  • To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

    — William Shakespeare
    4
  • If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

    — Dirk Benedict
    4
  • A great deal of struggle and sorrow in the world comes from misguided feelings of pride of ownership and possessiveness, versus the humble spirit of stewardship as common temporary inheritors of the great resources of earth.

    — Bryant H. McGill
    4
  • Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

    — Thomas Carlyle
    3
  • Sorrow is the great idealizer.

    — James Russell Lowell
    3
  • One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

    — Elbert Hubbard
    3
  • The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

    — Sa'di
    3
  • The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

    — Percy Bysshe Shelley
    3
  • Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

    — Henry David Thoreau
    3
  • A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

    — Alfred Lord Tennyson
    3
  • Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

    — Steven Tyler
    3

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