Sorrow Quotes - Page 15

• Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Debt, Discharge

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• Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

  Seneca the Younger

  Grief, Light, Tongue

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• He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.

  Martial

  Unseen

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, p.33, Delphi Classics

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• You transform all who are touched by you.
  Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows
  dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY.

  Rumi

  Joy, Trouble, Concern

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• I just can't sit back and wallow, In my own sorrow, but I know one fact: I'll be one tough act to follow.

  Eminem

  Facts, Tough, My Own

  Song: Beautiful, Album: Relapse, 2009

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• 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.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Eye, Thinking, Long

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• One man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
  And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Men, Bending Down

  'When You Are Old'

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• Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing a worse present state with a better which is past, you cannot but feel sorrow. It is not cured by reason, but by the incursion of present objects, which bear out the past.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Two, Judging

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: including Boswell's Journal of a tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's diary of A journey into North Wales”, p.72

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• For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed; that the dead should return, or the past should be recalled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Law, Return

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.83

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• We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

  Saint Augustine

  Death, Good Friend, People

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• Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Heart, Giving

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.91, Barbour Publishing

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• In our darkest hour, in my deepest despair,
  Will you still care? Will you be there?
  In my trials and my tribulations,
  Through our doubts and frustrations,
  In my violence and my turbulence,
  Through my fear and my confessions,
  And my anguish and my pain,
  Through my joy and my sorrow,
  In the promise of another tomorrow,
  I'll never let you part,
  For you're always in my heart.

  Michael Jackson

  Pain, Heart, Frustration

  "Song: 'Will You Be There'". 1993.

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• Those who will repent and forsake sin will find that His merciful arm is outstretched still. Those who listen to and heed His words and the words of His chosen servants will find peace and understanding even in the midst of great heartache and sorrow. The result of His sacrifice is to free us from the effects of sin, that all may have guilt erased and feel hope.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Sacrifice, Heartache, Understanding

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• There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

  George Eliot

  Trying, Failing

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.499, Penguin

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• I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the use of praying? - it's only a sin! It is strange, too, that I am not sleepy: in great, too great sorrow, after the first outbursts one is always sleepy. Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it si the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out... I lay down on the sofa but I did not sleep...

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sleep, Night, Men

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• As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us that in prayer alone can we be forearmed against our lesser sorrows; that strength to bear flows into the heart that is opened in supplication; and that a sorrow which we are made able to endure is more truly conquered than a sorrow which we avoid

  Alexander MacLaren

  Prayer, Heart, Agony

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• 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, Depth, Inevitable

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

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• The teaching on karma starts with the principle that people experience happiness and sorrow based on a combination of their past and present intentions. If we act with unskillful intentions either for ourselves or for others, we’re going to suffer. If we act with skillful intentions, we’ll experience happiness. So if we want to be happy, we have to train our intentions to always be skillful.

  Thanissaro Bhikkhu

  Karma, Teaching, Past

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• During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.

  Alice Walker

  Believe, Years, People

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• Every truth ever discovered -- each new light that will ever burn bright -- already exists in our consciousness. All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice -- the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows -- awaits us within ourselves. Hidden in this truth is our great promise, both as individuals and as a race of beings.

  Guy Finley

  Humility, Sacrifice, Compassion

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Mar 27, 2013

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• I said: what about my eyes?
  God said: Keep them on the road.
  I said: what about my passion?
  God said: Keep it burning.
  I said: what about my heart?
  God said: Tell me what you hold inside it?
  I said: pain and sorrow?
  He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

  Rumi

  Pain, Eye, Passion

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• Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

  Charles Spurgeon

  Writing, Blessing, People

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• Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of prayer, attention, remembrance of death, godly sorrow and mourning the body, too, takes its share of holiness, having acquired freedom from evil actions. This is what the Lord meant by saying that someone who cleans the outside of the cup has not cleansed it inside, but clean the inside and the whole cup will be clean

  Gregory Palamas

  Death, God, Christian

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Demand, Safe

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• When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Giving, Wife

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