Quotes of Sorrowful - somelinesforyou

“ Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses? ”

- Unknown

“ I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen. ”

- Matthew

“ I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy. ”

- Robert Burton

“ Have you a stool there to be melancholy upon? ”

- Ben Jonson

“ Nothing is miserable unless you think it so. ”

- Boethius

“ Nothing. I was miserable. I didn't wear this shirt,... I refused to wear it. ”

- John Madden

“ I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. ”

- Sylvia Plath

“ My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad. ”

- Olive Schreiner

“ To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand. ”

- Henri Frederic Amiel

“ Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something. ”

- John Keble

“ A hug is like a bandage to a hurting wound. ”

- Unknown

“ A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. ”

- Bil Keane

“ Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing. ”

- Thomas Tusser

“ The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. ”

- Francois de Salignac Fenelon

“ Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. ”

- Unknown

“ When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day, Fancy restores what vengeance snatch'd away. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life. ”

- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

“ There is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad. ”

- Olive Schreiner

“ Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ Sadness is a state of sin. ”

- Andre Gide

“ Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ”

- Jean Giraudoux

“ Melancholy is no bad thing. ”

- Sting

“ In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ If you don't want to deal with the devil, don't go in his shop. Keep on the Lord's side of the fence. ”

- Unknown

“ Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. ”

- Voltaire

“ When David left me I became totally brokenhearted. ”

- Isabella Rossellini
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