Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
George William Curtis

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
Freya Stark

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.
Joseph Butler

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
William Shakespeare

Partying is such sweet sorrow.
Robert Byrne

Patience is sorrow's salve.
Charles Churchill

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Ann Landers

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

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Charles Dickens

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
Alexandre Vinet

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
William Davenant

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
Soren Kierkegaard

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.
Thomas Hooker

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
John Webster

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Lord Byron

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