best quotations about
Sorrow |
and Sadness
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Quotations
 | The sadness will last forever. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter (his last words) 15 likes |
 | Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 15 likes |
 | Broken hearts are for assholes. — Frank Zappa, 1940-1993, American musician (song title from the album “Sheik Yerbouti”, 1977) 13 likes |
 | Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 12 likes |
 | Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 10 likes |
 | The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind. — E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, British writer 10 likes |
 | Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 7 likes |
| Melancholy is the happiness of being sad. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 7 likes |
 | Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. — Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274, Italian Dominican friar & philosopher 6 likes |
 | Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 6 likes |
 | Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 5 likes |
 | You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 5 likes |
 | When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Hamlet 5 likes |
 | Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 5 likes |
 | If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 5 likes |
| Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 4 likes |
 | Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 4 likes |
 | We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. — Khalil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese-American poet & philosopher 4 likes |
 | His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope. — William Maxwell, 1908-2000, American writer 4 likes |
| There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it. — E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, British writer 3 likes |
 | Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass. — Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1990, British writer 3 likes |
 | One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers. — Agatha Christie, 1890-1976, British writer 2 likes |
 | When I'm anxious it's because I'm living in the future. When I'm depressed it's because I'm living in the past. — Manolis Doukides, Greek writer 2 likes |
 | All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra. — Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946, American writer 1 likes |
 | The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day. — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 1 likes |
 | A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake. — Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, American cartoonist 1 likes |
 | Don’t make everyone know about your sadness. — John Steinbeck, 1902-1968, American writer, Nobel 1962 1 likes |
 | Desires are the source of sorrow. — Bouddha, 563-483 BC, Indian founder of Buddhism 1 likes |
 | The only sorrows that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them in the noise. — Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926, Czech-German poet 1 likes |
 | Intense love always leads to mourning. — Louise Glück, 1943-2023, American poet, Nobel 2020 1 likes |
 | Between grief and nothing I will take grief. — William Faulkner, 1897-1962, American writer, Nobel 1949 1 likes |
 | Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow. — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer 1 likes |
 | Melancholy is the little luxury of poor souls. — Henry de Montherlant, 1895-1972, French writer 1 likes |
 | If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief. — Sophocles, 496-406 BC, Ancient tragic poet 1 likes |
 | Of course, like all young men, I tried to be as unhappy as I could – a kind of Hamlet and Raskolnikov rolled into one. — Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer 1 likes |
 | You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances. — Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870, French writer 1 likes |
 | Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things. — Ernest Renan, 1823-1892, French philosopher & historian 1 likes |
 | My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 1 likes |
| There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 1 likes |
 | I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows. But now the damned things have learned to swim, and now decency and good behavior weary me. — Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954, Mexican painter 1 likes |
 | Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you, I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous. — François Rabelais, 1484-1553, French writer 1 likes |
 | We are not capable of being unhappy for long. — François-René de Chateaubriand, 1768-1848, French poet & politician 1 likes |
 | We poets, when we are in pain, instead of trying to banish the pain, we try to give it a title. — Frédéric Dard, 1921-2000, French writer 1 likes |
| There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair. — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 1 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. — Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet 6 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Waste no fresh tears over old griefs. Παλαιά καινοίς δακρύοις ου χρη στένειν. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian (Alexandros) 32 likes |
| Sweet is the memory of the sorrows past. Αλλ’ ηδύ τι σωθέντα μεμνήσθαι πόνων. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Andromeda 22 likes |
 | Sorrow is not the result of poverty, but of desire. Ου πενία λύπην εργάζεται, αλλά επιθυμία. — Epictetus, 50-120 AD, Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher 7 likes |
| There is no greater grief that the loss of one’s fatherland. Μόχθων δ’ ουκ άλλος ύπερθεν ή γας πατρίας στέρεσθαι. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Medea 5 likes |
