Leigh Hunt Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

• I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

  Leigh Hunt

  Book, Reading, Weather

  Leigh Hunt (1835). “The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side”, p.183

• Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sorrow, Tears, Despair

  Leigh Hunt (1853). “The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty”, p.62

• Tears and sorrows and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life: some for our manifest good, and ail, therefore, it is trusted, for our good concealed;--for our final and greatest good.

  Leigh Hunt

  Loss, Sorrow, Tears

• God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.

  Leigh Hunt

  Laughter, Sorrow, Tears

  Leigh Hunt (1853). “The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty”, p.62

• There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted; yet the belief, in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success.

  Leigh Hunt

  Beauty, Beautiful, Medicine

  Leigh Hunt (1834). “Leigh Hunt's London Journal”, p.1

• Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

  Leigh Hunt

  Helping Others, Sorrow, Bears

  Leigh Hunt (1853). “The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty”, p.27

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