Sorrow Quotes - Page 11

• Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

  Emile Durkheim

  Life, Sad, Taken

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.333, Routledge

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• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Gratitude, Feelings

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• He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]

  Khalil Gibran

  Gratitude, Joy, Clarity

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• 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

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• Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

  Adoniram Judson Gordon

  Gratitude, Notes, Blessedness

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 555), 1895.

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• This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

  Helen Keller

  Gratitude, Tasks, Delight

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.169, Book Tree

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• In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily grateful that they are not worse.

  Peter Abelard

  Gratitude, Grateful, May

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• There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.

  Frank Luntz

  Pain, Disappointment, Regret

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• If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Pain, People

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• All who in this world render true service to God or man receive a preparatory training in the school of sorrow. The weightier the trust and the higher the service, the closer is the test and the more severe the discipline.

  Ellen G. White

  School, Men, Discipline

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• For forty years did unbelief, murmuring, and rebellion shut out ancient Israel from the land of Canaan. The same sins have delayed the entrance of modern Israel into the heavenly Canaan. In neither case were the promises of God at fault. It is the unbelief, the worldliness, unconsecration, and strife among the Lord's professed people that have kept us in this world of sin and sorrow so many years

  Ellen G. White

  Israel, Years, Land

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• There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes. I feel a deep sorrow that my kids will never get to see what I've seen, and their kids will see nothing; there's a deep sadness whenever I look at nature now.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Eye, Sadness, Kids

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• Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Kindness, Knows

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press

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• If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is enough if he's well-versed only in raagas and techniques. Instead, he should be a knowledgeable person interested in life and philosophy. In his personal life there should be, atleast in some corner of his heart, a tinge of lingering sorrow.

  A. R. Rahman

  Philosophy, Heart, Knowledgeable Person

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• The Saviors atonement in the garden and on the cross is intimate as well as infinite. Infinite in that it spans the eternities. Intimate in that the Savior felt each persons pains, sufferings, and sicknesses. Consequently, he knows how to carry our sorrows and relieve our burdens that we might be healed from within, made whole persons, and receive everlasting joy in his kingdom. May our faith in the Father and the Son help each of us to become whole.

  Merrill J. Bateman

  Pain, Father, Son

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• The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or wonder or sorrow than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now.

  Richard Flanagan

  Past, Ideas, Evil

  Richard Flanagan (2016). “Gould's Book of Fish”, p.423, Random House

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• The relentless pull of love is a thousand times harder to fight than the tides. If you’re lucky, you’ll make it out before you drown. If you’re even luckier, you’re pulled under just long enough to wash away the sorrow. If you’re really lucky, like me, you resurface just in time to find the one you love floating right beside you.

  Cassia Leo

  Fighting, Love Is, Long

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• Those who suffer great adversity and sorrow and go on to serve their fellowmen develop a great capacity to understand others. Like the prophets, they have acquired a higher understanding of the mind and will of Christ.

  Carlos H. Amado

  Adversity, Understanding, Mind

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• From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

  Hippocrates

  Sports, Laughter, Grief

  Hippocrates (1979). “Writings”

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• When all hopes of recognition or honor have faded into distant memory, when purity of heart meets sorrow of mind, when all the world seems to walk in blindness and yet a man works without wearying for that which he loves...only in this moment is passion truly understood

  Franz Schubert

  Memories, Passion, Heart

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• We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies, and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.

  Harold Bloom

  Space, People, Overcoming

  Harold Bloom (2001). “How to Read and Why”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow!
  But it means that they have the ability to deal with it

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Laughing, Faces

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• Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

  Mother Teresa

  Joy, Forget, Christ

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.137, New World Library

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• To have faith in Christ means more than simply despising the delights of this life. It means we should bear all our daily trials that may bring us sorrow, distress, or unhappiness, and bear them patiently for as long as God wishes.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Mean, Long, Wish

  "The practical and theological chapters ; and, Three theological discourses".

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• The universe is a complete unique entity. Everything and everyone is bound together with some invisible strings. Do not break anyone’s heart; do not look down on weaker than you. One’s sorrow at the other side of the world can make the entire world suffer; one’s happiness can make the entire world smile.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Heart, Unique, Suffering

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