(491 quotes found)
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy”
Chinese Proverbs
“Sorrow makes us children again.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The one who loves you will make you weep.”
Argentine Proverb
“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
“When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.”
Franz Schubert
“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.”
George Eliot
“Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees”
Swedish Proverb
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
Kahlil Gibran
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.”
