Sorrow Quotes

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.

Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying -- valiantly, fruitlessly -- to eradicate.

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

I will practice coming back to the present moment...not letting regrets and sorrow drag me back into the past or letting anxieties, fears, or cravings pull me out.

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.

... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation.

What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.

Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.

There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.

The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.

Sorrow makes us all children again.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.

In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.

Every gulp of air that goes out in a cause other than the cause of Allah will turn to sorrow and regret on the Day of Judgement.

You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches...Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.

Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! But it means that they have the ability to deal with it

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.

Amidst sorrows, the only thing that enlivens us is optimistic faith. Never lose that faith.

To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

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

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.

Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.

Hula is the art of Hawaiian dance, which expresses all we see, smell, taste, touch, feel, and experience. It is joy, sorrow, courage, and fear.

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.

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

Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.

He feels all our sorrows, needs, and burdens as his own. That is why it is said that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring.

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

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!

The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion

Tears are the body's raindrops of emotion.

Empathy feels these thoughts; your hurt is in my heart, your loss is in my prayers, your sorrow is in my soul, and your tears are in my eyes.