All sorrows are destroyed upon attainment of tranquillity. The intellect of such a tranquil person soon becomes completely steady.
Bhagavad Gita – Sorrow
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Henry David Thoreau – Regret, Sorrow
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
Samuel Johnson – Sorrow is a rust of the soul
Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.
Samuel Johnson – Sorrow
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Cicero – Grief, sorrow
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
Marcus Tulius Cicero – Sorrow
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.
Emile Durkheim – sorrow quote
Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night
William Shakespeare – sorrow quote
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
Eisenhower on sacrifice and sorrow
There would be far less suffering amongst mankind, if men — and God knows why they are so fashioned — did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
Goethe quote – Sorrow
Sorrow makes us all children again – destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.
