A Quote by Charles Dickens

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Charles Dickens

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Despair Prodigious Sorrow Strength

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Charles Dickens
English - Novelist
February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870

Despair is despair, sorrow is sorrow, death is death. It's not about who is experiencing it; it's about building a bridge of empathy across these experiences.

Okieriete Onaodowan

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

Aleksandar Hemon

To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.

George Eliot

There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

Charles Baudelaire

No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

Haruki Murakami

Hatred and sorrow are power. They are yours to control. All you have to do is turn them into strength, and use that strength to move forward.

SebastiAn

Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never fallen, or were in a glorified state, then the strong torrents of Divine joy would be the normal force to open up all our souls' capacities; but in a fallen world, sorrow, with despair taken out of it, is the chosen power to reveal ourselves to ourselves. Hence it is sorrow that makes us think deeply, long, and soberly.

Lettie Cowman

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

Leigh Hunt

God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.

Leigh Hunt

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Robert Greene

Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away from the truth and deliverance. . . . Yet ignorance is so far from breaking the despair or changing despair to nondespairing that it can in fact be the most dangerous form of despair. . . . An individual is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit when he is ignorant of being in despair. But precisely this-not to be conscious of oneself as spirit-is despair, which is spiritlessness. . . .

Soren Kierkegaard

An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair.

Soren Kierkegaard

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.