Sorrows Quotes

“We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives.”

“I better understood the little lies that liquor told, lifting spirits and drowning sorrows while withholding the whole truth--that, in the end, it is the spirit in peril of drowning. Sorrows have gills.”

“If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.”

“All sorrows are bearable if there is bread.”

“When sorrows come they come not as single spies But in battalions!”

“There are few sorrows however poignant in which a good income is of no avail.”

“When the Buddha declares there is escape from sorrow, the escape is Nirvana, which is not a place, like heaven, but a psychological state of mind in which you are are released from desire and fear. And your life becomes harmonious, centered and affirmative. Even with suffering. The Buddhists speak of the bodhisattva - the one who knows immortality, yet voluntarily enters into the field of the fragmentation of time and participates willingly and joyfully in the sorrows of the world.”

“But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well—for your own son’s death. Never again will you embrace him stiding home. My spirit rebels—I’ve lost the will to live, to take my stand in the world of men—”

“Sorrows are like thunderclouds - in the distance they look black over our heads scarcely gray.”