Sorrow Quotes

Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.

Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.

I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

Sending you sincere condolences and the wish that the passing of time eases your sorrow.

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?

Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

every heart has its graveyard.

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim

Men die but sorrow never dies.

Just as the right hand comes to dress the wound on the left hand, we should see another person's sorrows as our own and come to his or her aid.

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.

Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.

Our faith, trust, and love are proved and revealed in adversities, that is, in difficult and grievous outward and inward circumstances, during sickness, sorrow, and privations.

And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?

A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast Sorrow was there The sweet cheat gone.

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

I intended to portray the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons and through the life of a monk who lives in a temple on Jusan Pond surrounded only by nature.

I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues.

When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.

There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.

If you're saddened by another's sorrow, then sorrow will never come to you. If you are happy at another's joy then joy will never leave you.

Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry "Amen" to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.

Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us