SORROW QUOTES VII

quotations about sorrow

Drownin' your sorrows only irrigates 'em.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

Tags: Ken Alstad


Confound not sorrow, which is divine and high, with trouble, which is menial and frivolous.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

Essays


Sorrow like a ceaseless rain
Beats upon my heart.
People twist and scream in pain--
Dawn will find them still again;
This has neither wax nor wane,
Neither stop nor start.

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

"Sorrow"

Tags: Edna St. Vincent Millay


Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together.

NEIL GAIMAN

American Gods

Tags: Neil Gaiman


Anger
Misery
You'll suffer unto me
Harvester of sorrow
Language of the mad

METALLICA

"Harverster of Sorrow"


Light sorrows speak, but deeper ones are dumb.

SENECA

Hippolytus

Tags: Lucius Annaeus Seneca


As long as skies are blue, and fields are green,
Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow,
Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Adonais

Tags: Percy Bysshe Shelley


Sorrow turns the stars into mourners, and every wind of heaven into a dirge.

DAVID HANNAY

attributed, Day's Collacon


Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

KAHLIL GIBRAN

The Prophet

Tags: Khalil Gibran


There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

E. M. FORSTER

A Room with a View

Tags: E. M. Forster


Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams;
And sorrow tracketh wrong,
As echo follows song.

HARRIET MARTINEAU

Hymn


Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Tags: Christian Nestell Bovee


Two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Island

Tags: Aldous Huxley


The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

A Defence of Poetry

Tags: Percy Bysshe Shelley


A scrap of sorrow, like a bird, lights on the heart.
I carry this in my body, seed
in an unswept corner, husk-encowled and seeming safe.
But they guard me, these small pains,
from growing sure
of myself and perhaps forgetting.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

"To Hear the Falling World"

Tags: Jane Hirshfield


Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Die Natürliche Tochter

Tags: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Lay down your sorrows,
Let me carry them awhile
Cast off your sadness,
And I'll lend you a smile
You've traveled such a long way
Searchin' for the light
Lay down your sorrows
And lay with me tonight

JOHNNY WINTER

"Lay Down Your Sorrows"