Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.

We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life.

Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry.

The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.

Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.

A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love.

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.

The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

I love the friendly faces of old sorrows; I have no secrets that they do not know.

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.

the snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.

Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.

I have come to realize you can never be truly happy unless you've known some sorrow.

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

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same.

In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.

If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.

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