Best 1689 quotes in «sorrow quotes» category

Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with many kinds of sorrow. Learn of the wonderful heroism of the poor, of the incredible generosity of the very poor

Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.

Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

Great knowledge brings great sorrow.

Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions!

Great sorrow makes sacred the sufferer.

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

Great sorrows cannot speak.

Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.

Grief is a species of idleness.

Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.

Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.

Had you restrained your love, you would be free of sorrow. The greater the love, while one possesses it, the greater the sorrow when one is deprived of it.

Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,And therefore let 's be merry.

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different, in essence they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us.

Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.

He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what he meant. We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight, and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. "I know," he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did.

He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.

He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]

He will never let the trial surpass the strength He gives you, and at the very moment you think yourself overwhelmed by sorrow, He will lift you up and give you peace.

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair.

How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.

Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.

Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.

I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.

I am a man of constant sorrow. I've seen trouble all my days.

I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. You with the unpaid bill, Despair, You, tiresome verse-reciter, Care, I will pay you in the grave, Death will listen to your stave.

I am persuaded ... that both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.

I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today.