In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the wanting, cannot command it, cannot request it by mail order or finagle it through bureaucratic channels.
Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness.
sorrow is easier than guilt.
Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.
Great sorrows have no leisure to complain: Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain.
No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine And made no deeper wounds?
Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.
There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.
We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.
There is no fire like passion No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger, And no joy like the joy of freedom.
Over my real sorrows I never weep.
If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.
Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.
Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love.
Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
When'er into thine eyes I see, All pain and sorrow fly from me. [Ger. , Wenn ich in deine Augen sch' So schwindet all' mein Leid und Weh. ]