Pearl S. Buck Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

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

  Pearl S. Buck

  Happiness, Hope, Joy

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir”, p.4, Open Road Media

• We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Learning, Joy, Healthy

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir”, p.60, Open Road Media

• It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Grief, Sorrow, Depth

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.26, Open Road Media

• endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Acceptance, Roots, Joy

• I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Two, People, Sorrow

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir”, p.30, Open Road Media

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