Sorrow Quotes - Page 26

• Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Accepting, Lost, Criticize

  "The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce". Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1911.

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• For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Lying, Eye

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• At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.

  Roger Zelazny

  Spring, Clock, Ends

  Roger Zelazny (2009). “Threshold”, Nesfa Press

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• Tears are the body's raindrops of emotion.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Tears, Raindrops, Body

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• It is enough to have been created, to have embodied for a moment the infinite and tumultuously creative spirit. It is infinitely more than enough to have been used, to have been the rough sketch for some perfected creation. Looking into the future, I saw without sorrow, rather with quiet interest, my own decline and fall.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Fall, Creative, Saws

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, Courier Corporation

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• Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.

  Kazuaki Tanahashi

  Disappointment, Grief, Joy

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• Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.

  Archilochus

  Past, Order, Years

  Archilochos, “To His Soul”

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• A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Stones, Way, Sand

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• When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure--with a sense of mystery and not-knowing. Instead of searching for answers that make you feel safe, you set out into the vastness of life and death, with a willingness to continually grow. You open up to the possibility that your ordinary life is an extraordinary adventure, and that your joys and sorrows have meaning. Spiritual practice becomes your rudder, offering direction and insight and discretion as you venture into the unknown.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Spiritual, Adventure, Offering

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.16, Ballantine Books

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• My feeling about fiction, regardless of the genre, is that it is meant to be a representation of life. I want my books to give a whole spectrum of experiences to my readers. Not just fear or terror or revulsion, but excitement, laughter, pain, sorrow, desire, etc.

  Richard Laymon

  Laughter, Pain, Book

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• And then the dear Lord will take us to the new earth, surrounded by the new Heaven, and the holy New Jerusalem will come down from God out of Heaven. Then we will have an end of pain and sorrow and crying and death. All these, thank God, will be forever done! And then God Himself will wipe away our tears.

  John R. Rice

  Pain, Dear Lord, Forever

  John R. Rice (1941). “Tears in Heaven”, p.24, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Life consists of two sides ... light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life.

  JoAnn Ross

  Dark, Light, Two Sides

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• Great knowledge brings great sorrow.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Great Knowledge

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.

  Demonax

  Pain, Lust, Delight

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• Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,And therefore let 's be merry.

  George Wither

  Cat, Care, Merry

  George Wither (1840). “Fair Virtue, the Mistress of Phil'arete: The Shepherd's Hunting”, p.187

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• It is my greatest wish to enable our people to live with nothing to envy at the earliest possible date, and it is my greatest pleasure to work energetically, sharing my joys and sorrows with our people, on the road of translating my wish into reality.

  Kim Jong Il

  Reality, People, Envy

  Response to questions from Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency, October 13, 2011.

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• If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Pain, People, Forget

  Sarah J. Maas (2014). “The Assassin's Blade”, p.222, A&C Black

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• The solo is a nuanced distillation of sorrow.

  Jennifer Dunning

  Solo, Distillation

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• Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there;  Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Grief, Silence, Secret

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.63

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• True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Sin, Break

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.332

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• Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

  Tryon Edwards

  Blessing, Evil, Giving

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1517, Ravenio Books

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• As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined, you overcome all limitation, all sorrow, and all pain. You learn not to be bound by desire, and eventually you transcend death itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Light

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• Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Eye

  Samuel Johnson (1854). “Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works”, p.375

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• Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with his pleasures and his pains, is perhaps the first to publish injuries or misfortunes which had never been known unless related by himself, and at which those that hear them will only laugh, for no man sympathises with the sorrows of vanity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Writing, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: including the series edited with prefaces, biographical and critical”, p.78

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• The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.

  Bruce Catton

  Memories, War, People

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