Sorrow Quotes - Page 16

• Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

  Albert Schweitzer

  Laughter, Voice, Giving

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with comfort. Strange is it that where misery was concentrated mercy reigned; where sorrow reached her climax weary souls find rest.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Soul, Comfort, Three

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.381, Discovery House

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• Feeling weightless... it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely comfortable... and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. And you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, As if you've been born again.

  Wally Schirra

  Dirty, Biblical, Pride

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• For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?

  Bram Stoker

  Song, Lying, Sunshine

  Bram Stoker (1904). “Dracula”, p.214, Hayes Barton Press

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• We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Father, Parenting, Contentment

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• I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Grief, Wind, Soul

  "Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon".

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• What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?

  Daniel Defoe

  Men, Joy

  Daniel Defoe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Daniel Defoe (Illustrated)”, p.4145, Delphi Classics

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• I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was enveloped in the great sadness, pervaded by it. Existence had no use. It was without end or reason. The most beautfiul things in it, a flower or a song, as well as the most compelling, a desire or a thought, were pointless. So great a sorrow. And I knew that the only rest from my anxiety—for I had been trembling even in infancy—lay in acknowledging and absorbing this sadness.

  Hayden Carruth

  Song, Stars, Flower

  Hayden Carruth (1998). “Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays”, p.4, Copper Canyon Press

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• Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

  David Hume

  Powerful, Influence, Pleasure

  David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.263

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• Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.

  Hippocrates

  Sports, Sweet, Laughter

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• And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Thinking, Age, Disease

  'Dipsychus' (1865) sc. 6

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• To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.

  Jack Kornfield

  Joy, Attention, World

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• One man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
  And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Men, Bending Down

  'When You Are Old'

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• I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope
  and product of my own strength.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fashion, Aliens, Talent

  "Gertrude". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 4, 1910.

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• Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent to sloth, the least sexy of the seven deadly sins. Thomas Aquinas winnowed it down for me: acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh prevails completely over the spirit. You don’t just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don’t care, and you don’t care that you don’t care.

  Mishka

  Christian, Sexy, Sadness

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• Acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh pervails completely over the spirit. You don't just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don't care, and you don't care that you don't care.

  Mishka

  World, Care, Flesh

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• The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal.

  Joanna Macy

  Grief, Heart, Maturity

  Joanna Macy (2013). “Greening of the Self”, p.7, Parallax Press

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• I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you
  miss them - the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible.

  Joe Rogan

  Thinking, People, Forever

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• In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might,
  Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.

  George MacDonald

  Father, Joy, Delight

  George MacDonald (2015). “A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul”, p.16, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Things are not as bad as it seems. The situations that cause us sorrow are the same ones that introduce us to the strength, power and wisdom that we truly are.

  Robin Sharma

  Causes, Introducing, Situation

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• There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone.

  Jocelyn Murray

  Pain, Loneliness, Grief

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• I intended to portray the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons and through the life of a monk who lives in a temple on Jusan Pond surrounded only by nature.

  Kim Ki-duk

  Joy, Four Seasons, Ponds

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• Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.

  Adam Hochschild

  War, Lying, Loss

  "Where Have All the Graveyards Gone? The War That Didn’t End War and Its Unending Successors" by Adam Hochschild, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.

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• The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Jobs, Clown

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• By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as a means for forging and developing our lives. To turn even sorrow into a source of creativity - this is the way of life of a Buddhist

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Buddhist, Creativity, Mean

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