| Author |
Quotes |
| Alice Cary | Ah, dont be sorrowful darling, And dont be sorrowful, pray: Taking the year together, my dear, There isnt more night than day |
| Ben Jonson | Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat. |
| Boethius | In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. |
| Dante Alighieri | There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. |
| Francois de Malherbe | Our days and nights Have sorrows woven with delights. |
| Jean Francois Ducis | My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me. |
| Jean Ingelow | When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries. |
| John Keats | O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May? |
| John Keats | To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And though to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me, and so kind. |
| John Keats | How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self. |
| Robert Browning Hamilton | I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way; But left me none the wiser, For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But, oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me! |
| Washington Gladden | In the bitter waves of woe, Beaten and tossed about By the sullen winds which blow From the desolate shores of doubt. |
| Horatius Flaccus | The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful. |
| Homer | A happier lot were mine, If I must lose thee, to go down to earth, For I shall have no hope when thou art gone,-- Nothing but sorrow. Father have I none, And no dear mother. |
| Homer | Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave. |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers. |
| Philip James Bailey | Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow. |
| Philip James Bailey | Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths. |
| Thomas Fuller | Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies. |
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