sorrow Quotes

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

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.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.