(444 quotes found)
“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.”
William Somerset Maugham
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
Oscar Wilde
“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”
Ann Landers
“Sorrow comes to all...Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better and yet you are sure to be happy again.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Sorrow makes us children again.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.”
Albert Einstein
“Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.”
“Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still”
Lord Byron