Sorrow Quotes - Page 8

A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.

Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by another is your own joy and sorrow. Empathy involves complete identification with another.

I would say my mind is always working - no matter where I am I continue to see opportunities all around me. My only sorrow is that I can't possibly explore them all!

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.

Grief is a species of idleness.

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

You don't really care about the trials of tomorrow, rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow

I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.

If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.

Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

Parting is such sweet sorrow

There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.

A cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away.

Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.

I have always thought of poetry as an act of celebration. Just by nature of writing a poem you are taking the time to dwell on whatever it is that you're writing about...you can be celebrating anger, you can be celebrating sorrow... you are spending the time to focus and observe and try to understand the various parts of being human.

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.

Things are not as bad as it seems. The situations that cause us sorrow are the same ones that introduce us to the strength, power and wisdom that we truly are.