Sorrow Quotes - Page 34

• I have noticed that after a time of deep sorrow the greatest comfort may come from a person you do not know well.

  Alice Adams

  Grief, Comfort, May

  Alice Adams (2011). “TO SEE YOU AGAIN: Stories”, p.146, Vintage

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• And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Happiness, Girl, Pain

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• Our joys will be doubled and our sorrows will be reduced and we will walk our life in community with the body of Christ. When you are with someone else, you are not nearly as willing to give up. So find a friend, be honest and walk together.

  Jennifer Rothschild

  Giving Up, Community, Joy

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• Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told them he must go away. Though they could not understand it at the time, his departure was for their benefit. The same is true of the unexpected setbacks and tragedies we experience in this life...When I consider the times when I have been confounded by events that seemed so contrary to what I thought God wanted for me, I should be mindful that they were permitted by the Lord's inscrutable providence for my own good, as difficult as that might be to fathom.

  Patrick Madrid

  Jesus, Joy, Tragedy

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• The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grade classroom, an adult book. I can remember the quality of the morning on which I read. It was a sunlit morning in January, a Saturday morning, cold, high, empty. I sat in a rectangle of sunlight, near the grate of the floor heater in the yellow bedroom. And as I read, I became aware of warmth and comfort and optimism. I was made aware of my comfort by the knowledge that others were not, are not, comforted. Carl Rowan at my age was not comforted.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Morning, Book, Yellow

  "Brown : The Last Discovery of America". Book by Richard Rodriguez, 2003.

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• Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Joy, Bed, Half

  Kathleen Winsor, Barbara Taylor Bradford (2012). “Forever Amber”, p.105, Chicago Review Press

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• This is the difference between depression and sorrow - sorrowful, you are in great trouble because something matters so much; depressed, you are miserable because nothing really matters.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Depression, Differences, Matter

  Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

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• Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life.

  Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

  Love, Lasts, Moments

  'Celestine.'

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• I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Laughter, Flower, Wish

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1899). “A Village Ophelia”

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• Life is a chain of small sorrows that lead to a great joy.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Joy, Life Is, Chains

  "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

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• It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are terrible--because they never are realized, and at the same time they prevent us taking life as it is. That is the real source of all our sorrow and suffering.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Real, Justice, Suffering

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• There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Mean, Journey, Escaping

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Eye, Giving, Brain

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.142, The Floating Press

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• Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.

  Jennifer Stone

  Light, Rubbish, Tranquility

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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• The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him.

  J.R. Miller

  Rocks, Land, Trials

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• I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.

  Luise Rainer

  Joy, Mind, States

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• Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

  George Eliot

  Past, Joy, Companion

  George Eliot (1955). “The George Eliot Letters: 1878-1880”

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• Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sin, Repentance, Amendments

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• Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Christian, Mind, Tears

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.151

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• My rage is gone,
  And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up.
  Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.
  Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully,
  Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city he
  Hath widowed and unchilded many a one,
  Which to this hour bewail the injury,
  Yet he shall have a noble memory.
  Assist.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Book, Cities

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1853). “The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered Portfolio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations ; with a History of the Stage, a Life of the Poet, and an Introduction to Each Play”, p.202

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• Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Fall, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler”, p.330

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• Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Unions, Resentment

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.124

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• Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

  Samuel Johnson

  Tears, Littles, Found

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.304

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• No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Vanity

  Samuel Johnson (1851). “The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works”, p.94

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• A woman's counsel brought us first to woe,
  And made her man his paradise forego,
  Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been
  As free from sorrow as he was from sin.

  John Dryden

  Women, Heart, Paradise

  John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.243

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