Top 1200 Sorrow Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

Two in distressmake sorrow less.

Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

God is not only the God of the sufferers but the God who suffers. ... It is said of God that no one can behold his face and live. I always thought this meant that no one could see his splendor and live. A friend said perhaps it meant that no one could see his sorrow and live. Or perhaps his sorrow is splendor. ... Instead of explaining our suffering God shares it.

Chase away sorrow by living

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

sorrow is easier than guilt.

Sorrow only increased with knowledge.

Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes.

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

Sorrow makes men sincere.

Endless sorrow has fallen upon my heart.

A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.

Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us through sorrow.

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

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow at this murder, and with rage at the senselessness of the crime. But this sorrow and rage will not inflame us to seek retribution; rather they will inflame our art. Our music will never again be quite the same. This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. And with each note we will honor the spirit of John Kennedy, commemorate his courage, and reaffirm his faith in the Triumph of the Mind.

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

Parting is such sweet sorrow

I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.

Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

It is wrong to sorrow without ceasing.

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.

Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.

A friend of mine said to me not long ago, "Terry you are married to sorrow." I looked at him and said, "No, I am not married to sorrow, I just choose not to look away." To not avert our eyes to suffering is to trust the power of presence. Joy emerges through suffering. Suffering is a component of joy. Whether we are sitting with a loved one dying or witnessing dolphins side-by-side watching the oil burning in the Gulf of Mexico, to be present with the world is to be alive. I think of Rilke once again, "Beauty is the beginning of terror." We can breathe our way toward courage.

For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

I saw sorrow turning into clarity.

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

For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

The solo is a nuanced distillation of sorrow.

Silence is sorrow's best food.

Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat.

There is no sorrow except in captivity.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

Sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.