Sorrows Quotes

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sad, Often, Secret

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine

Love, Men, Help

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
William Shakespeare

Single, Spies, Battalions

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph Campbell

Live, Joy, Cannot

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Khalil Gibran

Experience, Long, Before

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo

Life, Peace, Great

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Frida Kahlo

Good, Feeling, Learned

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles Spurgeon

Strength, Today, Tomorrow

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Spring, Almost, Relations

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison

Life, Nature, Humanity

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Henry Ward Beecher

Often, Full, Shadows

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
Orison Swett Marden

Trials, Develop, Grieves

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke

Men, Wine, Moral

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Emily Bronte

Sad, Proud, Themselves

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Joseph Addison

Give, Despair, Fury

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.
Greta Garbo

Yourself, Heart, Person

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Jeremy Taylor

Home, Wife, Children

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
Mason Cooley

Parents, Wanted, Denied

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.
Emma Goldman

Human, Become, While

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
Josh Billings

Happen, Enjoy, Trouble

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
Sophocles

Laughter, Children, Him

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
Lydia M. Child

Life, Love, Lie

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Tell, Hearts, Triumphs

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Jean Paul

Black, Distance, Gray

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Jean Paul

Great, Storm, Around

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
Greta Garbo

Yourself, Tell, Inside

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Hesiod

Marriage, Age, Women

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
A. C. Benson

Life, Worst, Fears

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Isak Dinesen

Put, Tell, Story

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
John Dryden

Future, Busy, Person

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