Sorrow

Famous quotes containing the word sorrow:

“That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true—not true, or undeveloped.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“The sense of an entailed disadvantage—the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centred, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.”
—Laurence Binyon (1869–1943)