Best 1689 quotes in «sorrow quotes» category

Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.

Give me your hand out of the depths sown by your sorrows.

God can use a sensitive Christian to be a rich blessing in the life of one who knows pain and sorrow.

God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another, I have my mission ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.

God is not only the God of the sufferers but the God who suffers. ... It is said of God that no one can behold his face and live. I always thought this meant that no one could see his splendor and live. A friend said perhaps it meant that no one could see his sorrow and live. Or perhaps his sorrow is splendor. ... Instead of explaining our suffering God shares it.

God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Grief is a species of idleness.

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

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.

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

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 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.