Sorrow Quotes - Page 18

In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.

With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.

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

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance.

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

. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

Whenever I'd feel angry or sad, I'd keep it to myself. I didn't want to upset or burden anyone with my problems. No wonder I felt lonely and isolated in my relationships, since I never allowed anyone to get to know the full me with all the shadows and sorrows.

Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility.

One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.

If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

Sorrow is not sickness-unless it becomes a permanent state of mental ill-health. The point is there are indeed stages of grief, as all the therapists tell us, but they do not obey some great unseen timetable.

Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.

Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.

A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.

...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.

And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.

A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.