Sorrow Quotes - Page 9

• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Sadness, Sad Life

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [78]

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• Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Forever

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• Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

  Emmylou Harris

  Death, Attitude, Grief

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

  Keanu Reeves

  Change, Grief, Grieving

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• You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Hurt, Pain, Understanding

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• The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Grief, Community, All The Pretty Horses

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.226, Pan Macmillan

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• Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.

  Thomas Otway

  Grief, Speak, Ends

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.125

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  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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• Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

  Louis XIV

  Death, Kings, Thinking

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• Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

  Tryon Edwards

  Wise, Grieving, Men

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.238, Ravenio Books

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• It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.

  Ted Dekker

  Heart, Joy, Secret

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• Sorrow makes us all children again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Grief, Condolences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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• No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?

  Billy Joel

  Education, Years, Two

  Song: Two Thousand Years, Album: River of Dreams, 1993

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• Take advantage of this human boat;
  Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream!
  This vessel will be later hard to find.
  The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!

  Shantideva

  Wisdom, Sleep, Free Yourself

  Shantideva (2007). “The Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.99, Shambhala Publications

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• Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.

  Edwin Markham

  Death, Heart, Grieving

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• Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.

  Austin O'Malley

  Gratitude, Rain, Rose

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• Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?

  Jean Paul

  Gratitude, Eye, Bird

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• Ungrateful are those on this earthly road, Who do complain that life is made of tears, That happiness on earth one cannot find, That we are made of sorrows and of fears.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Gratitude, Ungrateful, Tears

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• Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.

  Maimonides

  Tired, Grieving, Remembrance

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• I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.

  Julian Fellowes

  Bird, Missing, Shame

  "Downton Abbey (Christmas at Downton Abbey)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2010 - 2015.

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• Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mistake, Mean, Self

  Oswald Chambers (2006). “My Utmost Fhh Grad Updated/E”, Barbour Publishing

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• Pause and remember - If you empty yourself of yesterday's sorrows, you will have much more room for today's joy.

  Jennifer Young

  Letting Go, Yesterday, Joy

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• Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

  Thomas Moore

  Life, Sympathy, Healing

  Thomas Moore (1840). “The Works: Accurately Printed from the Last Original Editions with Critical Notes and a Sketch of His Life”, p.194

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• There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon.

  Solomon Northup

  Tired, Happy Life, Unhappy

  Solomon Northup (2016). “Twelve Years a Slave”, p.76, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Bread, Bearable, Ifs

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote”, p.32

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