1. We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. - Confucius
2. Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. - Thomas Aquinas
3. That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. - William Wordsworth
4. There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. - Dante Alighieri
5. Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. - Corrie Ten Boom
6. If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. - Oscar Wilde
7. Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
8. When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. - William Shakespeare
9. Tears are the silent language of grief. - Voltaire
10. Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. - Khalil Gibran
12. A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
13. What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. - Saint Augustine
14. Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. - Emily Dickinson
15. Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. - Victor Hugo
16. No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply. - Billy Graham
17. It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
18. Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. - William Butler Yeats
19. Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. - Arthur Schopenhauer
20. There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
21. Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
22. I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. - Desmond Tutu
23. Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. - William Blake
24. The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. - Albert Schweitzer
25. Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. - William Wordsworth
26. The dew of compassion is a tear. - Lord Byron
27. There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. - Aeschylus
28. It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. - Henry Rollins
29. Grief changes shape, but it never ends. - Keanu Reeves
30. I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
31. Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. - Marcel Proust
32. Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. - Meister Eckhart
33. Grief is the price we pay for love. - Queen Elizabeth II
34. Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. - Ovid
35. Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
36. Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. - Orison Swett Marden
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