Quotes about sorrow
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“too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.”

Source: The Hundred Secret Senses

“I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Dust Tracks on a Road

Source: Dust Tracks on a Road

Mountain

“Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying -- valiantly, fruitlessly -- to eradicate.”

Claire Messud (1966) American writer

Source: The Woman Upstairs

Sadness, Way, Heart, Anger

“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

Source: Hinds' Feet on High Places

Thinking, Tear, Time, Heart

“Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Life, Joy, Parting, Goodbye

“You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Phantom

“I want to know if you've touched the center of your own sorrow, if you've been opened by life's betrayals, or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.”

Oriah Mountain Dreamer (1954) Canadian author

Life, Pain, Fear, Betrayal

“Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Life, Pain, Heart, Parting

“Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.”

Jennifer Weiner (1970) American writer

Love, People

“She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Way, Heart

“Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop.”

Will Christopher Baer (1966) American writer

Heart

“I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

People, Books, Feeling, Joy

“Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

Life, Joy

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter

“In the real world
as in dreams
nothing is quite
what it seems.
-The Book of Counted Sorrows”

Dean Koontz (1945) American author

Books, World, Dreams

“We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions

Death, Thinking, Loss, Despair

“Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin

Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Ch. 28 Reunion

“But that is the dual gift of love, isn’t it? The joy of greeting and the sorrow of good-bye.”

Patricia Briggs book Dead Heat

Source: Dead Heat

Love, Joy

“My mom told me that I should trust the man who could see the sorrow behind my smile, the love behind my anger, and the reasons behind my silence.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Always on My Mind

Love, Smile, Moms, Silence

“Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.”

Marilynne Robinson book Housekeeping

Source: Housekeeping

Women, Children, Family, Singing

“the loss pressed down on her chest and came up into her throat. it was a fine cry -- loud and long -- but it had no bottom and no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.”

Toni Morrison book Sula

Source: Sula

Loss, Cry

“Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.”

Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance

Source: A Fine Balance

Pain, Happiness, Sadness, Time

“Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Tear, Singing, Heart

“Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Change, Perfection

“All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow.”

Susan Kay Phantom

Source: Phantom

Happiness, Beauty

“But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.”

Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux

Source: The Tale of Despereaux

Goodbye

“I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow”

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) American historian, writer, and environmentalist

Source: All the Little Live Things

Life

“The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.”

Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses

Communication

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Hyperion http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5436, Bk. III, Ch. IV (1839). <br class="br">Variant: Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad. <br class="br">Context: "Ah! this beautiful world!" said Flemming, with a smile. "Indeed, I know not what to think of it. Sometimes it is all gladness and sunshine, and Heaven itself lies not far off. And then it changes suddenly; and is dark and sorrowful, and clouds shut out the sky. In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad."

Secret, World, Sadness, Time