Top 612 Sorrows Quotes & Sayings

If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.

All sorrows are less with bread.

While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.

Great sorrows cannot speak.

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

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

Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows.

I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

I internalise things. My sorrows and joys are private.

Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.

Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring more; but one cannot and it is better, for if one grieved too deeply at other people's tears, life would be unendurable; and every man has sufficient sorrows of his own without taking to heart his neighbour's.

Seas wept from our deep sorrows.

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.

I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.

Love sorrows are addictive as other sorrows are not.

My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.

What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.

These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only a bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit urge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows, breakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master. But we two, sitting here in the shelter, eating and drinking, shall entertain each other remembering and retelling our sad sorrows. For afterwards a man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.

If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from tree to tree, Never finding the fruit - From life to life, Never finding peace. If you are filled with desire Your sorrows swell Like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire Your sorrows shall fall from you Like drops of water from a lotus flower.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

So long as you are in this world, be not surprised at the existence of sorrows.

Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.

What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?

Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.

Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!

Over my real sorrows I never weep.

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

I love the friendly faces of old sorrows; I have no secrets that they do not know.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

Bear sorrows for the sake of the Heavenly Kingdom. Without sorrows there is no salvation. On the other hand, the Kingdom of God awaits those who have patiently endured. And all the glory of the world is nothing in comparison. My joy! I implore you to acquire a peaceful spirit.

Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

A soul untried by sorrows is good for nothing.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

Every man has his secret sorrows.

Joyously participate in the sorrows of others.

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life.

Don't waste your sorrows

Gentle time will heal our sorrows.