Sorrow

Famous quotes containing the word sorrow:

“There might you have beheld one joy crown another, so and in such manner that it seemed sorrow wept to take leave of them, for their joy waded in tears.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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.