Sorrow Quotes - Page 17

From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.

Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together.

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

Tears are a tribute to our deceased friends. When the body is sown, it must be watered. But we must not sorrow as those that have no hope; for we have a good hope through grace both concerning them and concerning ourselves.

In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.

What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and hasten to make them ours so far as we may. Life in a small town is like a layer cake. One gets the whole of it, frosted top, lemon filling and all.

The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.

In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn, Look forward with hope for to-morrow.

If you have a sorrow that you cannot tell to anyone, you can go to our Father in Heaven.

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

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Happiness is a smile of comfort to the sorrowful.