A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
Albert Pike

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.
Joseph Butler

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Ovid

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

Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it.
Thomas Dekker

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
Basil C. Hume

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
Andrei Platonov

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.
John Fletcher

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Steven Tyler

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
Honore De Balzac

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
Aeschylus

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.
George William Russell

Genius is sorrow's child.
John Adams

Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and to-morrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.
Charles Wolfe