The tears shed over the graves are for the words left unsaid and the deeds left undone.
Few things are as painful as the truth realized too late.
Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.
We keep seeking our angel, demons come unsought.
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.
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.
Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
Sorrow is the child of too much joy.
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Patience is the plaster of all sores.
You can't prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but can prevent them from building their nest on it.
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
We crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
Those who drink to drown their sorrows should be taught that sorrows know how to swim.
Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.
Don't borrow sorrow from tomorrow!
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Happiness is salutary for the body but sorrow develops the powers of the spirit.
Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours.
Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow.
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.
I have never regretted anything. Regret, like guilt, is a waste of time.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
