Sorrow Quotes - Page 30

Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.

Acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh pervails completely over the spirit. You don't just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don't care, and you don't care that you don't care.

Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain.

Be gone, sorrow, sickness, wheelchairs, and cancer! Enough of you, screams of fear and nights of horror! Death, you die! Life, you reign!

Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.

There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.

I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be a great part of the substance of human life.

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the reward.

Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.

A shattered illusion is a sorrowful experience; but a life without illusion is a sorrowful life

Genius is sorrow's child.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust.

There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome.

A woman whose heart is not touched by the sickness of sorrow and whose hands do not go out in relief where it is in her power to help, lacks one of the elements which make the glory of womanhood.

Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher.

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.