Sorrow Quotes

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!

May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow.

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.

At times, a smile houses more sorrow than tears do.

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

A crowned queen was never treated with more reverence than I was by those whole-souled western boys, And for seventeen long years I was just their little sister, sharing both their news of joy and sorrow from home.

When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.