Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Genius is sorrow's child.
There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
I do know that there is no reason for me to drown myself from sorrow since I haven't yet tried to achieve anything great.
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.
Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
