Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

-Herbert, George
'Affliction (1)', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

Twice a week the winter through Here I stood to keep the goal: Football then was fighting sorrow For the young man's soul.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  A Shropshire Lad, no.21.

   To Sorrow, I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind.

-Keats,John
  Endymion, bk.4, l.173^8.

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs.

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'Ode to a Nightingale', stanza 3.

Never anticipate tomorrow's sorrow; Live always in this paradisal now.

-Khayya¤ m , Omar
c.1100  Ruba¤  iya¤  t, stanza 21 (translated by Robert Graves and Omar  Ali-Shah,1972).

There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The Power of the Dog'.

When two equally matched armiesmeet, it isthemanof sorrow who wins.

-Lao-Tzu   6c
c.250  BC  Tao-te Ching, no.69. Collected in LinYutang (trans and ed)  The Wisdom of China and India (1942).

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  Evangeline, pt.2, section1.

Sorrow, the great idealizer.

-Lowell,James Russell
  Among My Books,'Spenser'.

Si tengo la fortuna de que con tu alma mi dolor se integre, te dire¤   entre melanco¤  lico y alegre las singulares cosas de la luna. If I am fortunate enough for your soul to mix with my sorrow, I will tell you, half with melancholy, half with gladness, Unique things about the moon.

-Lugones, Leopoldo
  Lunario sentimental,'Divagacio¤   n lunar' ('Lunar digression').

But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

-McMurtry, LarryJeff
  Some Can Whistle, pt.4, ch.9.

Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor, So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves.

-Milton,John
  Lycidas, l.165^73.

Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion. SeeWordsworth 925:10.

-Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild
 Here Lies,'Sentiment'.

I did but see him, and he disappeared, I did but touch the rosebud, and it fell; A sorrow unforeseen and scarcely feared, So ill can mortals their afflictions spell. 650

-Philips, Katherine ne¤  e Fowler
'On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips'. (Issued1667).

Le bonheur est salutaire pour les corps, mais c'est le chagrin qui de¤  veloppe les forces de l'esprit. Happiness is healthy for the body, but it is sorrow which enhances the forces of the mind.

-Proust, Marcel
' 1927  A la recherche du temps perdu,'LeTemps retrouve¤ ' .

They were always†getting more credit than they deserved, more sorrow than they could bear, climbing into jobs before they were ready and failing just when they were succeeding.

-Reston,James B(arrett)
  Of John F, Robert F and Edward M Kennedy. Deadline.

Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base.Joy without labour is base.

-Ruskin,John
  Time andTide, letter 5.

Yet never can he die, but dying lives, And doth himself with sorrow new sustain, That death and life attonce unto him gives, And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto10, stanza 60.

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.

-Szilard, Leo
  After an early experiment at Columbia University which proved the possibility of splitting the atom. Quoted inJames B Simpson Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988).

This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crownofsorrow isremembering happier things.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'Locksley Hall' l.75^6.