The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

- Barbara Sher

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

- Fay Weldon

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 are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

- Felix Dennis

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

- Elizabeth McCracken

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

- Dan Colen

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

- Dante Alighieri

Patience is sorrow's salve.

- Charles Churchill

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

- Confucius

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

- Charles Dickens

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

- Abraham Lincoln

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

- Benjamin Franklin

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

- Alexandre Vinet

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

- Alfred de Musset

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

- Andrei Platonov

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

- Ann Landers

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

- Amelia Barr

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

- Ai Weiwei

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

- Agatha Christie