Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

• The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Children, Spring, Grief

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

• Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Blood, Sorrow, Age

• Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Sublime, Sorrow, Christianity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

• It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Angel, Home, Sorrow

• It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Sorrow, Mourn, Display

• A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health, it may seem well enough. But how insufficient, how mean, how terrible when age comes, and sorrow, and death! A life of pleasure! What does it look like when these great changes beat against it--when the realities of eternity stream in? It looks like the fragments of a feast, when the sun shines upon the withered garlands, and the tinsel, and the overturned tables, and the dead lees of wine.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Spring, Wine, Mean

• No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Truth, Men, Darkness

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