Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.