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Category: Sorrow and Nostalgia

1. "The tears shed over the graves are for the words left unsaid and the deeds left undone."

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

2. "Few things are as painful as the truth realized too late."

Anon.

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

3. "Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

4. "We keep seeking our angel, demons come unsought."

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Power and Weakness -:- Good and Evil

5. "Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

Rainer Maria Rilke

Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Work and Laziness

6. "When I wished to sing of love it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow it was transformed for me into love."

Franz Schubert

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Love

7. "Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Journals"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

8. "Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short."

English proverb

Quotations about: Marriage

9. "All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them."

Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)

10. "The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Quotations about: Envy

11. "There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness."

Dante Alighieri, "The Divine Comedy"

Quotations about: Memory

12. "Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe."

Angela Carter

Quotations about: History and Nations

13. "Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret."

Benjamin Disraeli, "Coningsby"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

14. "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. "

Robert Lee Frost

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

15. "Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow."

Honoré De Balzac

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

16. "Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion."

Samuel Johnson

17. "A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

John Barrymore

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- Youth and Age

18. "Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

Victoria Holt

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

19. "Sorrow is the child of too much joy."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

20. "Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow."

Swedish proverb

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

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21. "Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees."

Swedish proverb

22. "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."

Publilius Syrus, "Sentences"

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

23. "Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."

St. Thomas Aquinas

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

24. "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."

Leo Buscaglia

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

25. "Patience is the plaster of all sores."

Irish proverb

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

26. "You can't prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but can prevent them from building their nest on it."

Chinese proverb

27. "Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."

Charles Spurgeon

Quotations about: Anger

28. "Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

Emily Brontë

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

29. "We crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow."

Fulton Oursler

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Time and Passing

30. "Those who drink to drown their sorrows should be taught that sorrows know how to swim."

Ann Landers

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

31. "Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion."

Dorothy Parker, "Here Lies"

32. "Don't borrow sorrow from tomorrow!"

Anon.

33. "The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Life and Death

34. "Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up."

Anon.

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

35. "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Anger

36. "Happiness is salutary for the body but sorrow develops the powers of the spirit."

Marcel Proust, "Time Regained"

Quotations about: Happiness

37. "Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours."

English proverb

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

38. "Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow."

English proverb

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

39. "These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless."

George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

40. "I have never regretted anything. Regret, like guilt, is a waste of time."

Henry Miller

41. "Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates."

Jean de La Bruyere

42. "We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken."

Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"

43. "Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly."

George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

44. "The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

45. "Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy."

Lev Tolstoy

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

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

Mark Twain, "Following the Equator"

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

47. "Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim."

Graham Greene, "The Heart of the Matter"

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

48. "It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it. "

William Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage"

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes


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