Sorrow Quotes

Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.

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

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

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

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all

Train your eyes and ears; train your nose and tongue. The senses are good friends when they are trained. Train your body in deeds, train your tongue in words, train your mind in thoughts. This training will take you beyond sorrow.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.

Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! But it means that they have the ability to deal with it.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.