We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.
National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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.
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.
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.
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?
Partying is such sweet sorrow.
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.
