Sorrow is always toward ourselves, not 45 heaven; / Showing, we would not spare heaven, as we love it, / But as we stand in fear. Meas. for Meas., ii. 3.
Sorrow is an enemy, but it carries a friend's message within it too. All life is as death; and the tree Igdrasil, which reaches up to heaven, goes down to the kingdom of hell; and God, the Everlasting Good and Just, is in it all. Carlyle.
Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. Bible.
Sorrow is good for nothing but sin. Pr.
Sorrow is knowledge; they who know the most must mourn the deepest over the fatal truth, the tree of knowledge is not that of life. Byron.
Sorrow is shadow to life, moving where life doth move. Sir Edwin Arnold.
Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity 5 will cleanse and brighten it. Johnson.
Sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell, once set on ringing, with his own strength goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell. Shakespeare.
Sorrow like this / Draws parted lives in one, and knits anew / The rents which time has made. Lewis Morris.
Sorrow of spirit (like Night among the Greeks) is the mother of gods. Jean Paul.