Sorrow Quotes - Page 27

• My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Childhood, Atheism

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• There was a small boy on crutches. I do not know his name, and I suspect I never will. But I will never forget his face, his smile, his sorrow. He is one of the millions robbed of hope and dignity by charlatans discussed in this book. Wherever and whoever he is, I apologize to him for not having been able to protect him from such an experience. I humbly dedicate this book to him and to the many others who have suffered because the rest of us began caring too late.

  James Randi

  Book, Caring, Boys

  James Randi (1987). “The Faith Healers”

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• The despicable North Korean attack in Rangoon deprived us of trusted advisers and friends. So many of those who died had won admirers in America as they studied with us or guided us with their counsel. I personally recall the wisdom and composure of Foreign Minister Lee, with whom I met in Washington just a few short months ago. To the families and countrymen of all those who were lost, America expresses its deep sorrow.

  Ronald Reagan

  Korea, Usa, America

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of his youth... was more than he felt able to bear.... his sorrow and misery were increased by the thought of my mother hearing it from some other source, which would no doubt separate them, and he shrank from the thought of such a thing, or of causing her any unhappiness.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Mother, Wife, Faithful

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• More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.

  Callimachus

  Grief, Men, Traveller

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• For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes.

  Joy Williams

  Beautiful, Song, Eye

  Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.123, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it.
  When you accidentally place your finger in a flame, it is supposed to hurt just long enough for you to pull it out.
  If you think there is value in keeping it there, you will be a crispy critter. Pain is a minor element of life, unless you are indulging it.
  Then it becomes suffering. Get the message and then get on with your life, which is far more about joy than sorrow.

  Alan Cohen

  Hurt, Pain, Thinking

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• So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wiseRound their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dark, Air, Sick

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Song Of Hiawatha Xix: The Ghosts”

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• In joy and sorrow all are equal,
  Thus be guardian of all, as of yourself.

  Shantideva

  Joy, Guardian, Equal

  Shantideva, Padmakara Translation Group (2008). “The Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.204, Shambhala Publications

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• Most Christians would rather be happy than feel the wounds of other peoples' sorrows.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Feels, Wounds

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• Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.

  J. C. Macaulay

  Consolation, Console

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• You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.

  Tim Finn

  Running, Hurt, Rain

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• Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste joy, and if we are suspicious of ecstasy, agony can never reach us either. Joy and sorrow are the parents of our spiritual growth.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Agony, Joy

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease with no humiliation, a life of security with no fear, a life of richness with no poverty, a life of joy with no pain, a life of perfection with no flaws. Allah is testing us in this world with a life that will end in death, a life of pride that is accompanied by humiliation and degradation, a life that is tainted by fear, where joy and ease are mixed with sorrow and pain.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Pain, Pride, Perfection

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• Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Guilt, Done, Amends

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• A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.

  Confucius

  Exercise, Men, Forethought

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• It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Light, Darkness

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.187, Delphi Classics

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• The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sympathy, Stronger, Prosperity

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3952, Delphi Classics

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• To drink away sorrow.

  Horace

  Drink

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• Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Children, Happy Times

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.50, 谷月社

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• It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Past, Self, Mixtures

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.415, 谷月社

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• Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Oddities, Faults, Irritating

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6393, Delphi Classics

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• even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Hurt, Hands

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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• None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.

  Tacitus

  Shows, Greater, Delighted

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• Love why do we one passion call,
  When 'tis a compound of them all?
  Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet,
  In all their equipages meet;
  Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear,
  Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.

  Jonathan Swift

  Love, Sweet, Pain

  Jonathan Swift (1843). “Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published”, p.681

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