Jean Paul Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

• Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

  Jean Paul

  Break Up, Nature, Air

• Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

  Jean Paul

  Wings, Joy, Sorrow

• With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?

  Jean Paul

  Gratitude, Joy, Black

  Jean Paul F. RICHTER (1849). “Life of ---,compiled from various sources together with his Autobiography,...”, p.99

• Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?

  Jean Paul

  Gratitude, Eye, Bird

• Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

  Jean Paul

  Distance, Black, Sorrow

  "Hesperus", XIV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 733-736), 1922.

• There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

  Jean Paul

  Sad, Joy, Sorrow

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