Sorrow Quotes - Page 38

• Death cut the strings that gave me life,
  And handed me to Sorrow,
  The only kind of middle wife
  My folks could beg or borrow.

  Countee Cullen

  Cutting, Wife, Kind

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.51, Library of America

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• When you realize no one else on this earth can be like you... that no other soul may know the beauty, sorrow, light and darkness you alone are given to see... then you will, at last, be the fearless individual your Heart of hearts has called you to be.

  Guy Finley

  Heart, Light, Fearless

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• We mourn; we sorrow for our loved ones that go - our wives, our husbands, our children, our parents; we sorrow for them; and it is well and proper that we should moum for them and shed tears for the loss, for it is our loss; but it is their gain, for it is in the march of progress, advancement and development. It will be all right when our time comes, when we have finished our work and accomplished what the Lord required of us.

  Francis M. Lyman

  Children, Husband, Loss

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• There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Leadership, Wisdom, Pain

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• There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces
  The guttural sorrow of the refugees.

  Louis MacNeice

  Hawks, Faces, Refugee

  'The British Museum Reading Room' (1941)

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• Science tries to answer the question: "How?" How do cells act in the body? How do you design an airplane that will fly faster thansound? How is a molecule of insulin constructed? Religion, by contrast, tries to answer the question: "Why?" Why was man created? Why ought I to tell the truth? Why must there be sorrow or pain or death? Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

  Warren Weaver

  Pain, Airplane, Science

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• Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep,
  Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow,
  And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.

  Edwin Muir

  Lying, Thinking, Sometimes

  Edwin Muir, “The Horses”

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• If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.

  Oswald Chambers

  Fire, People, Gods Will

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.61, Discovery House

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• Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Prayer, Men, Joy

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• Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.

  Thomas Huxley

  Pain, Eye, Doors

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.323, University of Georgia Press

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• Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality. When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.

  Adyashanti

  Hurt, Reality, Love Is

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• The depth of my sorrow is the height of my joy.

  Genevieve

  Joy, Depth, Height

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• If we will only surrender ourselves utterly to the Lord, and will trust Him perfectly, we shall find our souls "mounting up with wings as eagles" to the "heavenly places" in Christ Jesus, where earthly annoyances or sorrows have no power to disturb us.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Jesus, Eagles, Wings

  HANNAH WHITALL SMITH (1952). “THE CHRISTIANS SECRET OF A HAPPY LIFE”

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• I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.

  Mesa Selimovic

  Regret, Promise, Becoming

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• Even if you've sworn to yourself never to read vampire fiction again, do yourself the favor of reading Motherless Child. Glen Hirshberg has crafted a compelling, heartbreaking thriller full of character, grit, and sorrow. Bravo

  Christopher Golden

  Children, Reading, Character

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• We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness with all beings. Don't ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time.

  Joanna Macy

  Grief, Heart, Compassion

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• The rain has spoiled the farmer's day;
  Shall sorrow put my books away?
  Thereby are two days lost.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Rain, Loss

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.116, Harvard University Press

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• Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,
  Ang'ring itself and others.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Play, Fool

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “King Lear”, p.94, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.

  Mason Cooley

  Joy, Folly, Frivolous

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• Victorian sorrow: the stars are winking in the sky, but not for us.

  Mason Cooley

  Stars, Sky, Winking

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• Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

  Mason Cooley

  Desire, Example, Soap

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• When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

  Mason Cooley

  Mirrors, Medusa, Looks

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• Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.

  Mason Cooley

  Joy, Gone, Behinds

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• The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

  Mason Cooley

  Deceit, Contradiction, Aphorism

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• I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.

  Mason Cooley

  Childhood, Joy, Listening

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