Sorrow Quotes - Page 9

The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.

Everything is sorrow for the wise.

In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.

All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is.

We can bear the heavy load without asking to have it lightened. We can keep the sorrow now and endure it. We can go on in quiet peace without the new blessing which we thought so necessary. We have not been saved from the battle we shrank so from entering, but we have sought and have gained the victory.

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!

Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Happiness and sorrow are twins, let them come and go like clouds.

For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.

None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.

Strength, strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different, in essence they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us.

Two in distressmake sorrow less.

The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.

Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.

Come all ye that pass by, and see if there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow.

I'm afraid a boat so small would sink with the weight of all my sorrow.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow!

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.