Sorrow Quotes - Page 22

• Can you visualize a world with no more death, no more pain, no more hunger, no more fear, no more sorrow, no more crying nor sickness, a world where everything is a joy and a pleasure? - A society where everybody works together in harmony, cooperation and love? That's Heaven!

  David Berg

  Pain, Joy, Heaven

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• The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

  Bernard Berenson

  Stress, Healing, Passion

  Bernard Berenson (1968). “The Florentine painters. The Central Italian painters”

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• And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.

  Jack Kerouac

  Ignorance, Joy, Way

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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• Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

  Mary Oliver

  Children, Growing Up, Play

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• I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sadness, Drawing, People

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.

  Al-Ghazali

  Suffering, Affliction, Want

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• Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

  William Saroyan

  Heart, World, May

  William Saroyan (2009). “The Time of Your Life”, p.3, A&C Black

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• Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.

  Eleanora Duse

  Teacher, Growth, Unhappiness

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• I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Today, Chance

  "Blair: Britain's 'sorrow' for shame of slave trade" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2006.

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• People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance-all healthy feelings without which people couldn't exist.

  Albert Ellis

  Regret, Frustration, People

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• We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.

  Pema Chodron

  Loneliness, Forever, Acting

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn, Look forward with hope for to-morrow.

  John Churton Collins

  Sea, Ponies, Looks

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• There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Comfort

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “Fear and Trembling”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Joy, Doubt, Height

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• Endless sorrow has fallen upon my heart.

  Olympia Brown

  Heart, Endless, Fallen

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• Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography.

  Carol Anshaw

  Contemporary Fiction, Voice, Seductive

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• Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.

  Carol Anshaw

  Pet, Contracts

  Carol Anshaw (2012). “Lucky in the Corner: A Novel”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.

  Max Muller

  Evil, Deeds, Fool

  F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.

  Roger Scruton

  Home, Joy, Purpose

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• There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are - and it's an utter mystery.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Song, Passion, Mystery

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• Love rejoices in good wherever it finds it; envy is pained by good, and the sight of the happiness of others hurts the eyes and the heart of the envious man. Love wishes to give; envy would rather receive. Love creates; envy destroys. Love builds up; envy pulls down. Love helps those in need, comforts the afflicted, and strives to turn all that is evil into good; envy would turn the little happiness to be found in this world into evil, sorrow, and pain.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Love, Hurt, Pain

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.61, Sophia Institute Press

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• The soul bride shall never be a widow, she shall never suffer sorrow.

  Guru Nanak

  Soul, Suffering, Widows

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• Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. It is a woman's face usually; often a face which has trace of great sorrow all over it, till the smile breaks. Such a smile transfigures: such a smile, if the artful but knew it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

  Helen Hunt

  Weapons, Faces, Now And Then

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• Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.

  Shaggy

  Needs, Impossible, Tomorrow

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• Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Self, Risk

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