S Quotes
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“Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.”
Source: Science And Health
“Sorrow has such beautiful wings.”
“Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.”
Source: The Son of a Servant
“Sorrow, I realized. That was the agony behind my eyes. Sorrow, who came like a shepherdess, leading a flock of tears.”
Source: The Knight and the Moth
“Sorrow in the Heart of an Apple”
I tidied my old sorrow, wrapped it gently in scented cloth, and buried it beneath the apple tree in our village orchard.
Seasons rolled by... And I believed it was finished, forgotten, even the burial site lost to memory.
Then came harvest.
I plucked a red apple— shiny, luscious, radiant with promise.
But with the first bite, I tasted it.
That same sorrow, aged but unmistakable.
It had not only survived— it had multiplied.
Now here I am, face to face again,
finding it in the heart of every apple.”
Source: سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]
“Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.”
Source: The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales
“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
“Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.”
Source: Life and Writings
“Sorrow is a sharable weight but a solo process.”
Source: Dearest Josephine
“Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.”
“Sorrow is allowed, sorrow is advised; all we have to do is let go, all we have to do is love.”
Source: The List of my Desires
“Sorrow is an opportunity to appreciate happiness.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.”
Source: Cry, the Beloved Country
“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.”
Source: Cry, the Beloved Country
“Sorrow is better than laughter, for sadness has a refining influence”
“Sorrow is better than laughter; for, by the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better.”
“Sorrow is brief but joy is endless”
“sorrow is easier than guilt.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“Sorrow is food swallowed too quickly, caught in the throat, making it nearly impossible to breathe.”
Source: Sing, Unburied, Sing
“Sorrow is full of pain, never regrets.”
“Sorrow is full of unvoiced regrets.”
“Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never fallen, or were in a glorified state, then the strong torrents of Divine joy would be the normal force to open up all our souls' capacities; but in a fallen world, sorrow, with despair taken out of it, is the chosen power to reveal ourselves to ourselves. Hence it is sorrow that makes us think deeply, long, and soberly.”
“Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.”
Source: The Works of John Webster: Now First Collected
“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”
Source: Riding Shotgun
“Sorrow is humbling. I want my pain to be fabulous. I don't need my pain to be worse than anyone else's; I just want it to be strangely, uniquely mine. Art to someone else's breakdown.
— Thea Hillman, "Dear Kath After"
from the anthology Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache”
Source: Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person
“Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.”
Source: The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx
“Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.”
Source: Manfred
“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”
“Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop.”
“Sorrow is my aura, and sadness hugs me tightly.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round me this year.”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams
“Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Sorrow is not a malfunction.
It is not a sign
that something has gone wrong.
It is a riverbed emotion
— ancient, alive —
part of what makes you real.
The one who follows the Way
does not try to seal it off.
They do not rush for tools,
or wrap it in advice.
They sit beside sorrow
without a script.
They breathe with it.”
Source: The Tao of Grief
“Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.”
“Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.”
Source: Critical and literary
“Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.”
“Sorrow is not sickness-unless it becomes a permanent state of mental ill-health. The point is there are indeed stages of grief, as all the therapists tell us, but they do not obey some great unseen timetable.”
“Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.”
“Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.”
“Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.”
Source: The Rambler
“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”
“Sorrow is so woven through us, so much a part of our souls, or at least any understanding of our souls that we are able to attain, that every experience is dyed with its color. This is why, even in moments of joy, part of that joy is the seams of ore that are our sorrow. They burn darkly and beautifully in the midst of joy, and they make joy the complete experience that it is. But they still burn.”
“Sorrow is the cathedral, the immense architecture; in its interior there's room for almost everything: for desire, for flashes of happiness, for making plans for the future. And for watching all those evidences of ongoing life crumble in the flash of remembering, in the recurring wave of fresh grief.”
Source: Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
“Sorrow is the great idealizer.”
“Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.”
“sorrow is the price of happiness.”
Source: All I Want For Christmas Is A Cryptid
“Sorrow is the violent smashing of reason, in that reason has no power over it.”
Source: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
“Sorrow is too great to exist in small hearts.”
Source: Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran
“Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.”
“Sorrow is what defines you”