Sorrow Quotes - Page 25

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.

Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

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.

Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.

Joy takes away from us the thoughts of our actions; sorrow it is that awakens the soul.

Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.

I sense a thousand strands of sorrow are sewn into an inch of my spirit.

Tears and sorrows and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life: some for our manifest good, and ail, therefore, it is trusted, for our good concealed;--for our final and greatest good.

Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.

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]

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life

Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.

Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?

How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.

Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.