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1. "Few things are as painful as the truth realized too late."
Quotations about: Truth and Falsity
2. "Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind."
Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"
Quotations about: Joy and Sadness
3. "We keep seeking our angel, demons come unsought."
Agnieszka Lisak
Quotations about: Power and Weakness -:- Good and Evil
Rainer Maria Rilke
Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Work and Laziness
Franz Schubert
Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Love
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Journals"
Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement
7. "Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short."
English proverb
Quotations about: Marriage
8. "All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them."
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
9. "The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Quotations about: Envy
10. "There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness."
Dante Alighieri, "The Divine Comedy"
Quotations about: Memory
11. "Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe."
Angela Carter
Quotations about: History and Nations
12. "Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret."
Benjamin Disraeli, "Coningsby"
Quotations about: Youth and Age
13. "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. "
Robert Lee Frost
Quotations about: Work and Laziness
14. "Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow."
Honoré De Balzac
Quotations about: Joy and Sadness
Samuel Johnson
16. "A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
John Barrymore
Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- Youth and Age
17. "Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience."
Victoria Holt
Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes
18. "Sorrow is the child of too much joy."
Chinese proverb
Quotations about: Joy and Sadness
19. "Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow."
Swedish proverb
Quotations about: Joy and Sadness
20. "Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees."
Swedish proverb
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21. "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
Publilius Syrus, "Sentences"
Quotations about: Oration and Silence
22. "Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."
St. Thomas Aquinas
Quotations about: Health and Alcohol
23. "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."
Leo Buscaglia
Quotations about: Joy and Sadness
24. "Patience is the plaster of all sores."
Irish proverb
Quotations about: Pain and Tears
Chinese proverb
26. "Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."
Charles Spurgeon
Quotations about: Anger
27. "Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."
Emily Brontë
Quotations about: Joy and Sadness
28. "We crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow."
Fulton Oursler
Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Time and Passing
29. "Those who drink to drown their sorrows should be taught that sorrows know how to swim."
Ann Landers
Quotations about: Health and Alcohol
30. "Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion."
Dorothy Parker, "Here Lies"
31. "Don't borrow sorrow from tomorrow!"
32. "The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live."
Albert Einstein
Quotations about: Life and Death
33. "Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up."
Quotations about: Joy and Sadness
34. "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
Chinese proverb
Quotations about: Anger
35. "Happiness is salutary for the body but sorrow develops the powers of the spirit."
Marcel Proust, "Time Regained"
Quotations about: Happiness
36. "Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours."
English proverb
Quotations about: Joy and Sadness
37. "Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow."
English proverb
Quotations about: Sin and Conscience
George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"
Quotations about: Youth and Age
39. "I have never regretted anything. Regret, like guilt, is a waste of time."
Henry Miller
40. "Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates."
Jean de La Bruyere
41. "We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken."
Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"
42. "Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly."
George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"
Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes
43. "The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Quotations about: Joy and Sadness
44. "Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy."
Lev Tolstoy
Quotations about: Joy and Sadness
Mark Twain, "Following the Equator"
Quotations about: Wit and Humor
46. "Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim."
Graham Greene, "The Heart of the Matter"
Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes
William Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage"
Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes