Top 30 Best Sorrowful Quotes
#1. When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely.
Dana Reeve
#2. The world is a looking-glass which flings back to us the reflection of ourselves. If we laugh it laughs back at us. If we shed tears, it reflects a sorrowful face.
Orison Swett Marden
#3. Underwater madness slipping into a haze, drowning and choking in repugnant nostalgic thoughts.
Karen Quan
#5. If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.
Victor Hugo
#6. I was not sorrowful, but only tired
Of everything that ever I desired.
Ernest Dowson
#7. To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.
Stendhal
#8. He seemed to see his fellow creatures grotesquely, and he was angry with them because they were grotesque; life was a confusion of ridiculous, sordid happenings, a fit subject for laughter, and yet it made him sorrowful to laugh.
W. Somerset Maugham
#9. He hated him for the twenty-three year old his mother had been, younger than he now was when she'd died, alone and sorrowful.
Sarah J. Maas
#10. The wind sighed through the trees, and the fallen leaves rattled up the deserted walks and around the hubcaps of parked cars. It was a faint and sorrowful sound, and the boy thought that he might be the only one in Boulder awake enough to hear it.
Stephen King
#11. Music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.
Pearl S. Buck
#12. The 'lords of the earth' are those who are doing their Will. It does not necessarily mean people with coronets and automobiles; there are plenty of such people who are the most sorrowful slaves in the world. The sole test of one's lordship is to know what one's true Will is, and to do it.
Aleister Crowley
#13. Has everyone gone mad?"
"Everyone was mad already, my lady," Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. "It is merely that the times have brought it out in them.
Tad Williams
#14. Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.
Sri Aurobindo
#15. A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
Halsey
#16. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.
Henry David Thoreau
#17. The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken.
Shannon L. Alder
#18. The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.
Horace
#19. A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
Walter De La Mare
#20. I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful - just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#21. It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#22. I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life
in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrowful
is fulfillment. The fullness of life is open to all of us.
Betty Smith
#23. It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...
John Green
#25. Achilleus started awake, staring, and drove his hands together, and spoke, and his words were sorrowful: Oh, wonder! Even in the house of Hades there is left something, a soul and an image, but there is no real heart of life in it.
Homer
#26. Out of this sorrowful experience I understand more fully all human strivings, thwarted ambitions, and the infinite capacity of hope.
Helen Keller
#27. When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
O. Henry
#28. How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Jean Ingelow
#29. That point in time just as the last leaf is about to drop, as the remaining petal is about to fall; that moment captures everything beautiful and sorrowful about life. Mono no aware, the Japanese call it.
Tan Twan Eng
#30. Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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