Sorrow

Famous quotes containing the word sorrow:

“A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 15:13.

“There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Fowls in the frith,
Fishes in the flood,
And I must wax wod:
Much sorrow I walk with
For best of bone and blood.”
—Unknown. Fowls in the Frith. . .

Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.