S Quotes
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“Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than men in steel with bloody purposes. Death is not dreadful; 'tis the dread of death— We die whene'er we think of it!”
“Sorrow like a ceaseless rain Beats upon my heart. People twist and scream in pain-- Dawn will find them still again; This has neither wax nor wane, Neither stop nor start.”
Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
“Sorrow, like pleasure, creates its own atmosphere. A first glance into any home tells one whether love reigns there, or despair.”
Source: Cousin Bette
“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”
“Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.”
Source: A Streetcar Named Desire
“Sorrow makes us all children again -
destroys all differences of intellect.
The wisest know nothing.”
Source: Emerson in His Journals
“Sorrow makes us all children again.”
Source: Emerson in His Journals
“Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.”
“Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.”
“sorrow must not be cultivated: it is a poor lifestyle choice.”
“Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Sorrow only increased with knowledge.”
Source: Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
“Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.”
“Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love.”
Source: מחברת משירי משה בן יעקב אבן עזרא /
“Sorrow slid suddenly through her as she remembered. Sorrow for what she'd lost. Sorrow for what she had not yet found. Sorrow for the boy she'd loved, who'd become a thrall for a woman who did not love him. Sorrow for her brave, brazen friend, who'd thrown herself toward an uncertain, violent fate. Sorrow for her mirror sister-her shadow twin-who she'd thought was brightness incarnate but who'd made herself into something much darker. Sorrow for broken kingdoms and stolen Gates and memories lost and not yet found.
But then she looked up. Pulled the man she loved down for a lingering kiss. More than a kiss-a covenant.
Tomorrow they could grieve. Tomorrow they could plan. Tomorrow they could go to war. Tomorrow was more than either of them had ever hoped for.
"Good morning," she said.
A slow smile curved his lush, plush lips. "Good morning, colleen."
And she knew-this was where her story ended.
This was where her story began.”
Source: A Feather So Black
“Sorrow? So that was it then? All I knew about this emotion was how it used to turn life into nightmare eons ago, just like a thorn could steal away a rose’s beauty.”
Source: Guardian of the Auras
“Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, inextricably commingled, bound in pain and strewn in sorrow-crash!”
Source: Monday or Tuesday
“Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.”
Source: Chronicles of Nick
“Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.”
Source: The Book of the Dun Cow
“Sorrow teaches more lessons than laughter.”
“Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”
Source: A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
“Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.”
“Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.”
Source: South Moon Under
“Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote
“Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.”
Source: The House of Gold: Lenten Sermons
“Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.”
Source: The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013
“Sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.”
Source: The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, a Life of the Author, and an Essay on His Poetry, by the Rev. John Mitford
“Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.”
“Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but on this particular occasion such was my state of feeling, that I began to fancy myself inspired; so I took pen in hand, and as usual I went ahead.”
Source: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...
“Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.”
“Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.”
“Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply deliver Sorrow.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)
“Sorrow, the heart must bear,
Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there.
Many a circumstance, at least,
Touches the very breast.
For those
Whom any sent away,--he knows:
And in the live man's stead,
Armor and ashes reach
The house of each.”
Source: The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.
“sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it”
Source: De Profundis
“Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.”
“Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave.
[Lat., Tristia maestum
Vultum verba decent; iratum, plena minarum;
Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.]”
“Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.”
“Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief.”
“Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.”
“Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.”
“Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted.”
“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.”
“Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world.”
“Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.”
Source: Sammlung
“Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.”
“Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they will continue: and for pleasures, because they stay not, and do but call to drink at my door, I will use them as passengers with slight respect. He is his own best friend that makes the least of both of them.”
Source: Works: Devotional works
“Sorry - Americans only buy things that come from suffering. They just enjoy it more when they know someone's getting hurt.”