Sorrow Quotes

Akhenaton
Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us? -- Akhenaton


Richter, Jean Paul
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. -- Jean Paul Richter


Shakespeare, William
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. -- William Shakespeare


Tennyson, Frederick
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years. -- Frederick Tennyson


Tupper
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.


von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe