Sorrow Quotes

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ... content to eat the bread of sorrow and drink the waters of affliction.

I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.

Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.

Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.

The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any

The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

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

And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.

When peace like a river, attendeth my way / When sorrow like sea billows roll / Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say / It is well, it is well, with my soul.

Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.

Forget your troubles and dance! Forget your sorrows and dance! Forget your sickness and dance! Forget your weakness and dance!

There is no sin or transgression, pain or sorrow, which is outside of the healing power of His Atonement.

There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might have been said or might have been done that never can be said or done.

There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial

Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.

We have to surrender ourselves completely to the Lord with faith and devotion in Him, serve others to the best of our capacity, and never be a source of sorrow to anybody.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.

Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow.

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

A soul untried by sorrows is good for nothing.

Every drop of sweat and every breath we take in life, if not taken for the sake of Allah, will lead to regret and sorrow on the Day of Judgment

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

So long as you are in this world, be not surprised at the existence of sorrows.

The end of desire is the end of sorrow.

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.