Quotes about Sorrow
Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,Which was my sin, though it were done before?Wilt thou forgive that sin; through which I run,And do run still: though still I do deplore?When thou hast done, thou hast not done,For, I have more.
— John Donne
Sweetest love, I do not go,For weariness of thee,Nor in hope the world can showA fitter love for me;But since that IMust die at last, 'tis best,To use my self in jestThus by feign'd deaths to die.
— John Donne
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
— Woodrow Wilson
When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.
— Dante Alighieri
Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
— CS Lewis
Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.
— Dorothy Day
There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.
— Charles Spurgeon
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Life is a sea of sorrow in the midst of islands of happiness.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.
— Marianne Williamson
Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it does not put an end to it.
— John Calvin