Washington Irving - Sorrow Quotes

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When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow.

Washington Irving

True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it.

Washington Irving

There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.

Washington Irving

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Washington Irving

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

Washington Irving