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.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.