“When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.”

“Everyone is in pain. No matter where they come from or what you think of them. Sorrow spares no one”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“The creation itself is full of griefs. How can one understand joy if there is no sorrow? And how can everyone be happy at the same time?”

Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna

“The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow.”

Hannah Hurnard book Hinds' Feet on High Places

“In sorrow I am sending a feeble voice, O Six Powers of the World. Hear me in my sorrow, for I may never call again. O make my people live!”

Black Elk (1863–1950) Oglala Lakota leader

“Fear in your heart cries to the loving-cup:
Sorrow to sorrow as the sparks fly upward.
The log groans and confesses
There is one story and one story only.”

Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist

“For when do friends not delight in the sorrow of the prosperous?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

“Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

“Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.”

George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss

“The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher