“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”

“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?”

“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.”

“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!”

“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.”

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

“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”

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

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