Sorrow Quotes - Page 32

• Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Song, Numbers, Infinite

  "Housekeeping: A Novel". Book by Marilynne Robinson, www.abc.net.au. 1980.

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• This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is ... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Loss, Light, Joy

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• Christ took hold of the work of the world's saving in a larger way than it is possible for us to do, and therefore the burden of His undertaking came upon Him in a heavier, wider, and more crushing way than it can come upon us; and therefore, while it overwhelmed Him in sorrow, our smaller mission and lighter task can with entire propriety leave us buoyant and gladsome.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Crush, Friday, Tasks

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• For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

  Amelia Barr

  Forethought, Stills, Spares

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.53, Litres

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• Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them.

  Harriet Martineau

  People, Knees, United States

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.60

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• God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Giving, Doe, Care

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.288

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• Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.

  Stella Benson

  Blessed, Blessing, Apples

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power, which, to speak according to our own feelings, renews its strength, and, without reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal laws which are imposed by a higher Power.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Lying, Character, Sea

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• Do I want to pray or only to think about my human problems? Do I want to pray or simply kneel there contemplating my sorrow? Do I want to direct my prayer toward God or let it direct itself towards me?

  Hubert Van Zeller

  Prayer, Thinking, Want

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• Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

  Storm Jameson

  Lasts, Impermanence

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.223, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I sorrow that all fair things must decay.

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Decay, Fairs

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• Labor is rest--from the sorrow that greet us;
  Rest from all petty vexations that meet us,
  Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us,
  Rest from the world-sirens that hire us to ill.
  Work--and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow;
  Work--thou shalt ride over Care's coming billow;
  Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow!
  Work with a stout heart and resolute will!

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Lying, Heart, Waiting

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• It was in His parting sorrow--that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for ever since has His name been breathed in morning and evening prayers that none can count, and has brought down some gift of sanctity and peace on the anguish of bereavement, and the remorse of sin.

  James Martineau

  Jesus, Morning, Prayer

  James Martineau (1905). “A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons”

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• One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.

  Anita Brookner

  Children, Growing Up, Passion

  Anita Brookner (2016). “Brief Lives”, p.69, Penguin UK

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• Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Heart, People, Expectations

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• even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Happiness, Health, Men

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• Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Joy, Turns

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• Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.

  Aaron Hill

  Adoption, Tears, Stones

  Aaron Hill, Colley Cibber, John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1817). “Tragedy of Alzira with the Life of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”, p.14

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• Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Women, Leader, Happy Day

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• The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Disappointment, Compassion, Average

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• Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

  Orville Dewey

  Heart, Broken, Sin

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• Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under God, the destinies of humanity. In the hours of gloom and sorrow we look to her for sympathy and comfort. Where shall she find strength for trial, comfort for sorrow, save in that gospel which has given a new meaning to the name of "mother," since it rested on the lips of the child Jesus?

  Henry Benjamin Whipple

  Daughter, Mother, Atheist

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 618, 1895.

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• I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

  Fanny Burney

  Sleep, Joy, Restless

  Fanny Burney (1820). “Evelina; Or, The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World”, p.259

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• I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.

  Winifred Holtby

  Chocolate, Doe, Cocoa

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind and deaf and insensible to reality. There are times when only sorrow can give to sorrow.

  Winifred Holtby

  Happiness, Frustration, Reality

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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