Sorrow Quotes - Page 28

Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand

Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat.

Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.

And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

I have noticed that after a time of deep sorrow the greatest comfort may come from a person you do not know well.

Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply deliver Sorrow.

Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.

If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.

To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.

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.

Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.

For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and convinces me they're true. I feel things intensely, and that sometimes brings me on wave of profound sorrow.

Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . . . then wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.

There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.

Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.