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Sorrow Quotes

I was new to sorrow, but it did not the less alarm me.

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Chapter 3. Victor after death of his mother.

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

– Goran Persson

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war.

– Herbert Hoover

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

– John Webster

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

– Joni Mitchell

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

– Joni Mitchell

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

– James Russell Lowell

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

– Barbara Sher

Let this cup pass from me.

– The Bible

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

– Charles Dickens

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

– Alexandre Vinet

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

– Andrei Platonov

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

– Benjamin Franklin

There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

– Fay Weldon

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

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

– Dante Alighieri

It is the blessing of the LORD that makes rich, And He adds no sorrow to it.

– The Bible

Patience is sorrow’s salve.

– Charles Churchill

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

– Dan Colen

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

– Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nobody understands another’s sorrow, and nobody another’s joy.

– Franz Schubert

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

– George William Curtis

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

– Felix Dennis

Humor reminds you, when you’re flattened by sorrow, that you’re still human.

– Elizabeth McCracken

How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can’t – at least not in the moment.

– Joseph B. Wirthlin

The source of one’s joy is also often the source of one’s sorrow.

– Jessamyn West

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.

– Jean Ingelow

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

– Miguel de Cervantes

Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

– Karl Amadeus Hartmann

Nobody notices your sorrow, your pain, but everyone notices your mistakes.

– Miley Cyrus

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