Sorrow Quotes - Page 10

• Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of sorrow and discouragement.

  Amy B. Lyman

  Courage, Anchors, Joy

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• A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.

  Djuna Barnes

  Sad, Running, Men

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• Your heart will be shattered by sorrow If you force it to live In tomorrow's ephemeral imagination-world Instead of in today's eternal Reality-Now.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Reality, Imagination

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• Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Children, Cost, Birth

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• It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to visit us. And all man's winters are His - the winter of our poverty, the winter of our sorrow, the winter of our unhappiness - even 'the winter of our discontent.

  George MacDonald

  Summer, Winter, Men

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.636, Delphi Classics

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

  A.J. Cronin

  Worry, Today, Sap

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• Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Heart, Long, Childhood

  Soren Kierkegaard's journal entry, 1847.

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• Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

  Stefan Kanfer

  Sad, Grief, Loss

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• The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

  Eudora Welty

  Positive, Happiness, Morning

  Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But coming to terms with one’s sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

  Marie Brennan

  Stranger, Term, One Thing

  Marie Brennan (2013). “A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent”, p.322, Macmillan

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• A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.

  Tomas Transtromer

  Summer, Night, Knowing

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• True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow and humiliation - in heartfelt confession before the throne of grace - in a complete breaking off from sinful habits, and an abiding hatred of all sin. Such repentance is the inseparable companion of saving faith in Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Godly, Light

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• Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Encouragement, Pain, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore, Krishna Dutta, Andrew Robinson (1997). “Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Beauty, Courage, Pain

  "6.o Congreso Internacional de Medicina Fisica: 2-6 julio 1974" by Instituto Nacional de Previsión, (p. 424), 1974.

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• For some moments in life there are no words.

  David Seltzer

  Sympathy, Grief, Losing A Loved One

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• I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Brother, Pain, Believe

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together our ancestors and descendants, those who went before with those will come after us.

  Starhawk

  Community, Joy, Risk

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• Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

  Rene Descartes

  Happiness, Wisdom, Laughter

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• In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

  Solomon

  Grief, Ecclesiastes, Contradicting

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• The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.

  Epictetus

  Wish, Doe, Therapy

  Epictetus (1926). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• [L]ike thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough year just awake In its cradle on the brake. The brightest hour of unborn Spring, Through the winter wandering, Found, it seems, the halcyon Morn To hoar February born.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sweet, Spring, Winter

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.612

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• What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

  A. C. Benson

  Beauty, Uplifting, Song

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• There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent, distilling in this process of contrast a sense of satisfaction, of richness that can be captured and pinned down only by those who possess the gift of awareness.

  Louis Bromfield

  Light, Shadow, Variation

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• This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

  Grief, Book, Soul

  Isaac Mayer Wise (1876). “The Cosmic God: A Fundamental Philosophy in Popular Lectures”

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