Quotes of Sorrow - somelinesforyou

“ There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. ”

- Dante Alighieri

“ When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Patch grief with proverbs. ”

- William Shakespeare

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

- Jean Paul Richter

“ The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it. ”

- Talmud

“ Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. ”

- Nathan Hale

“ The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown. ”

- William Cowper

“ When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries. ”

- Jean Ingelow

“ Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realized that I would have to try something else. ”

- James Stewart

“ I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains. ”

- Anne Frank

“ Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ”

- Don Herold

“ I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ”

- Agatha Christie

“ In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person. ”

- Rita Mero

“ I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid. ”

- Katharine Hepburn

“ Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ There is something in sorrow more akin to the course of human affairs than joy. ”

- C. Fitzhugh

“ O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May? ”

- John Keats

“ Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. ”

- Ovid

“ The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. ”

- Helen Rowland

“ Every one can master a grief but he that has it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it. ”

- Unknown

“ No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up. ”

- Emil Cioran
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