Best 1689 quotes in «sorrow quotes» category

Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining.

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.

Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

Life is a chain of small sorrows that lead to a great joy.

Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

Like a red morn that ever yet betokened, Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds, Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with sorrow and marvel at its journey, which was tenderness for his own journey. In India almost nobody would be able to afford this rice, and you had to travel around the world to be able to eat such things where they were cheap enough that you could gobble them down without being rich; and when you got home to the place where they grew, you couldn't afford them anymore.

Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication with their Maker. What they never say except upon their knees, he said in his palpitating compositions.

Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life.

Love sorrows are addictive as other sorrows are not.

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

Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition when we see them at their most base, in their sorrow and gluttony and foolishness. You need the virtues, too—some sort of virtues—but we don’t care about Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina or Raskolnikov because they’re good. We care about them because they’re not admirable, because they’re us, and because great writers have forgiven them for it.

May it make your sorrow Easier for you to bear Knowing there are others Who understand and care.

Most Christians would rather be happy than feel the wounds of other peoples' sorrows.

More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.

Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first, quite out of reason's view, And now am lost above it.

Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go.

Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.

Music is the voice of all sorrow, all joy. It needs no translation.

Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

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.

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.

Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of what one dislikes. Therefore don't take a liking to anything. To lose what one likes is hard, but there are no bonds for those who have no likes and dislikes. From preference arises sorrow, from preference arises fear, but he who is freed from preference has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of sorrow and discouragement.

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow.

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine And made no deeper wounds?

Nobody can see the trouble I see, nobody knows my sorrow.

No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

Nobody notices your sorrow, your pain, but everyone notices your mistakes.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

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.

No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found.

Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.