Famous Quotes - Tags - Sorrow
- 1st Lady. Madam, we’ll tell tales.
Queen. Of sorrow or of joy?
1st Lady. Of either,... More
- A face peered. All the grey night
In chaos of vacancy shone;
Naught but vast sorrow was... More
- A scented sorrow, corseted! More
- a sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.
Drug thy memories, lest thou... More
- Ah done been in sorrow’s kitchen and Ah done licked out all de pots. Ah done died in grief and... More
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought... More
- Ah, how shall you know the dreary sorrow at the North Gate,
With Li Po’s name... More
- All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not. More
- All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. More
- Alonzo. What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes
Would, with themselves, shut up my... More
- And turned on him with such a daunting look,
He said twice over before he knew... More
- Be thou that wintry sound
As of the great wind howling,
By which sorrow is... More
- before its great shadow joined
the walls and roof and seemed
to uphold the hall like a beam. More
- But come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute... More
- But it thought no bed too narrow—it stood with lips askew
And shook its great head sadly... More
- But, truly, I have wept too much! The dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every... More
- By that bedes side ther kneleth a may,
And she wepeth both nyght and day.
And by... More
- By this he knew she wept with waking eyes: More
- Can I see a falling tear,
And not feel my sorrow’s share? More
- Come weep with me, past hope, past cure, past help! More
- Come, all sad and solemn shows,
That are quick-eyed Pleasure’s foes!
We convent nought... More
- Comfort’s in heaven, and we are on the earth,
Where nothing lives but crosses, cares, and... More
- Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres. More
- Death cut the strings that gave me life,
And handed me to Sorrow,
The only kind of middle... More
- Down, thou climbing sorrow,
Thy element’s below. More
- Each new morn
New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows
Strike heaven on the face. More
- Everyone can master a grief but he that has it. More
- Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is... More
- Farewell sadness
Good-day sadness
You are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling. More
- For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others. More
- For I so truly thee bemoane,
That I shall weep though I be Stone:
Until my Tears, still... More
- For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. More
- Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not. More
- From the beach the child holding the hand of her father,
Those burial clouds that lower... More
- Give me that glass, and therein will I read.
No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow... More
- Give sorrow and pity to those who mourn; More
- Great griefs, I see, medicine the less. More
- Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast. More
- His tears run down his beard like winter’s drops
From eaves of reeds. More
- Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief. More
- How beautiful, if sorrow had not made
Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty’s self. More
- I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible,... More
- I am not prone to weeping, as our sex
Commonly are, the want of which vain dew
Perchance... More
- I am persuaded ... that both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure... More
- I could not follow your wishes, but I know
If they assuaged you
It would not be crying... More
- I declare
Two lineages electrify the air,
That will like pennons from a mast
Fly over... More
- I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky... More
- I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and... More
- I have, as when the sun doth light a storm,
Buried this sigh in wrinkle of a smile;
But... More
- I pity the men whose natural pleasures are burthens, and who fly from joy ... as if it was really... More
- I saw my lady weep,
And Sorrow proud to be advanced so
In those fair eyes where all... More
- I tell you solemnly
That I was sorry to have disappointed him. To be eaten by that beak and... More
- If all the world could have seen ‘t, the woe had been universal. More
- If but some vengeful god would call to me
From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering... More
- In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony,... More
- Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow— that great... More
- Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,
That sees into the bottom of my grief? More
- It’s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries;
I never hear the west wind but... More
- Jesus, Buddha, Mahommed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a... More
- Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind. More
- Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. More
- Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there
Weep our sad bosoms empty. More
- Like vinegar on a wound is one who sings songs to a heavy heart. Like a moth in clothing or a... More
- Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt ... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is... More
- My particular grief
Is of so flood-gate and o’erbearing nature
That it engluts and... More
- No memories of felicity save with faint ruffle of sorrow More
- Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so... More
- O Sorrow, wilt Thou live with me
No casual mistress, but a wife. More
- O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,
The poisonous damp of night disponge upon... More
- O that ‘twere possible,
After long grief and pain,
To find the arms of my... More
- Of comfort no man speak.
Let’s talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs,
Make dust our... More
- Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright,
The band is playing somewhere,... More
- One sorrow never comes but brings an heir
That may succeed as his inheritor. More
- One woe doth tread upon another’s heel,
So fast they follow. More
- Only Herrick’s left alone,
For to number sorrow by
Their departures hence and die. More
- Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin. More
- Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a... More
- People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great... More
- Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has... More
- Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World!
You, too, have come where the dim tides are... More
- Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere... More
- Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am... More
- Singing I was at peace,
Above the clouds, outside the ring:
For sorrow finds a swift... More
- Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow’s eye,
Steal me awhile from mine own company. More
- So spake our Father penitent; nor Eve
Felt less remorse. They, forthwith to the... More
- Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is... More
- Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps. More
- Sorrow and grief of heart
Makes him speak fondly like a frantic man. More
- Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,
Makes the night morning and the noontide night. More
- Sorrow ends not when it seemeth done. More
- Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it... More
- Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour... More
- Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.... More
- Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear,
Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of... More
- Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion. More
- Sorrow makes an ugly face odious. More
- Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing. More
- Sorrow, the great idealizer. More
- Swallow a loss and learn a lesson. More
- Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine... More
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