Sorrow Quotes - Page 13

I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are - and it's an utter mystery.

Do I want to pray or only to think about my human problems? Do I want to pray or simply kneel there contemplating my sorrow? Do I want to direct my prayer toward God or let it direct itself towards me?

Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.

Sorrow makes men sincere.

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.

The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -

Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it only empties today of it strengths

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

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.

Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.

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

When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism — a holy sorrow, unmixed with anger.

If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Ive always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.

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.

Men die but sorrow never dies.

How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?