Sorrow Quotes - Page 12

• I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

  Daniel Pennac

  Reading, Hours, Relieved

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• Raw and delicate, poignant and poetic, Shelby Smoak’s Bleeder exposes the sorrow and sometimes sweetness of coming to age with HIV. In a world of misunderstanding and stigmas, the young Smoak searches for love and acceptance, and his readers can’t help but find themselves becoming emotionally attached to him. His is an observant and encompassing story, noticing the brilliance of existence that others might take for granted. The sunsets written here are more lovely than in life.

  Jenny Boully

  Sunset, Acceptance, Lovely

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• The thought content of ghazals must be meaningful, related to life, it’s emotions of joy and sorrow. It must have the human touch, it should not be phoney.

  Jagjit Singh

  Meaningful, Joy, Emotion

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• Hope...which is whispered from PAndora's box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is onl time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.

  Ian Caldwell

  Lasts, Pandora's Box, Nudge

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• There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.

  Harold Bell Wright

  Fellowship, Conventionality, Knows

  Harold Bell Wright (1970). “The Shepherd of the Hills”, p.30, Pelican Publishing

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• God uses suffering to purge sin from our lives, strengthen our commitment to Him, force us to depend on grace, bind us together with other believers, produce discernment, foster sensitivity, discipline our minds, spend our time wisely, stretch our hope, cause us to know Christ better, make us long for truth, lead us to repentance of sin, teach us to give thanks in time of sorrow, increase faith, and strengthen character.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Character, Commitment, Discipline

  Joni Eareckson Tada, Steven Estes (1997). “When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty”, p.117, Harper Collins

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• I know that I am not the only person who is alone in the world. I know that others sorrow in the night. That others pick up a razor and slice into their own skin, with greater or lesser success. I know that others look at their lives and see only silent failure and disconsolation, feeding the cat, checking their email, doing the crossword. I know that I am not the only person to have lived a life like mine. I am aware. (212)

  Robert Goolrick

  Cat, Night, Skins

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.212, Algonquin Books

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• So long as you are in this world, be not surprised at the existence of sorrows.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Long, World, Existence

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• Such sorrow— The cry of true compassion Sinks into my hard ego.

  Taitetsu Unno

  Compassion, Ego, Cry

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• Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with no alloy of envy or suspicion or selfishness or sorrow?

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Blessed, Envy, Age

  Randolph Sinks Foster (1870). “Beyond the Grave: Being Three Lectures Before Chautauqua Assembly in 1878, with Papers on Recognition in the Future State, and Other Addenda”, p.228

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• What relief! What comfort! What joy! Those laden with transgressions and sorrows and sin may be forgiven and cleansed and purified if they will return to their Lord, learn of him, and keep his commandments

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Joy, Comfort, Relief

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• When we are ready, [Jesus Christ's] pure love instantly moves across time and space, reaches down, and pulls us up from the depths of any tumultuous sea of darkness, sin, sorrow, death, or despair we may find ourselves in and brings us into the light and life and love of eternity.

  John H. Groberg

  Jesus, Life And Love, Moving

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• I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.

  Rita Rudner

  Mother, Food, Turkeys

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow.

  Rumi

  Joy, Joys And Sorrows

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• Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.

  Bill Withers

  Wise, Pain, Tomorrow

  Song: Lean On Me, 1972

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• Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.

  Thomas Merton

  Dust, Joy, Ashes

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• When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Disappointment, Joy, Doubt

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• Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Sacrifice, Depth, Glory

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.239, A&C Black

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• Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.

  Mother Teresa

  Sadness, Sin, Serving God

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• All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you. The speech they weave is a link between you and your human siblings. The consequences that cause sorrow and rapture are the seeds that the past has sown in the field of the soul, and by which the future shall profit.

  Khalil

  Beautiful, Sibling, Book

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• Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes.

  Khalil

  Teaching, Men, Despair

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• By the way, two wars are in an endless state of sorrow. Egypt about burned to the ground and all you people care about is my bullshit... Pathetic. Shame, shame shame

  Charlie Sheen

  War, Egypt, Two

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• My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.

  Rumi

  Heart, Thinking, Compassion

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• Prayer is the way to destroy all fear. It is the way to banish sorrow, the way to light a torch of hope. It is the revolution that rewrites the scenario of our destiny.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Prayer, Destiny, Light

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• I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered, 'and you've ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you know it's a blessing?

  Rumi

  Sweet, Drinking, Grief

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