Sorrow Quotes - Page 18

• Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

  Richard Bach

  Grief, Flying

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• Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

  Victor Hugo

  Youth

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Miserables”, p.366

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• Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Grief, Opinion

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1886). “Tusculan Disputations ...”

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• Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.

  Sara Teasdale

  Love, Thinking, Given

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Determination, Past, Sin

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• What is it that we all believe in that we cannot see or hear or feel or taste or smell — this invisible thing that heals all sorrows, reveals all lies and renews all hope? What is it that has always been and always will be, from whose bosom we all came and to which we will all return? Most call it Time. A few realize that it is God.

  Robert Brault

  God, Lying, Believe

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• Lack of knowledge is the
  source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted
  or fully active.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Pain, Dormant, Source

  B.K.S Iyengar (2001). “Astadala Yogamala Volume-3”, p.165, Allied Publishers

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Grief, Light, Tongue

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• No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fall, Emotion, Dislike

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• The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.

  Laozi

  War, Funeral, Victory

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• In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.

  William Wordsworth

  Sadness, Heaven, Earth

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.215

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• The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

  Larry McMurtry

  Sadness, People, Horizon

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Some Can Whistle”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Nature, Animal, Emotion

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• I saw sorrow turning into clarity.

  Yoko Ono

  Sad, Saws, Clarity

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• Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hate, Winning, Reality

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• Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

  Horace Greeley

  Grief, Ambition, Hands

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• But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

  Alan Paton

  May, Cry The Beloved Country, Beloved Country

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

  Louis Sullivan

  Mankind, Possession, All Time

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• Our greatest hope is for the experience of joy, and often we are not as smart as we think we are when it comes to predicting what would bring us that joy. . . Hope that is attached to a particular outcome is looking for pleasure but fishing for pain, because attachment itself is a source of pain. It is best to hope for an experience of life in all its fullness-a life that can embrace both joy and sorrow, and will still be at peace.

  Marianne Williamson

  Hope, Pain, Smart

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• Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

  Euripides

  Wise, Joy, One Line Friendship

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• There is sorrow, but I hope one can see that it is sorrow for the people who died so young and so crazy, for nothing. I have respect for them, but also for their wishes, or for the power of their wishes. Because they tried to change the stupid things in the world.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Crazy, Stupid

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. The spacecraft carries our secret hope that there is something better out there-a world where we may someday go and leave the sorrows of the past behind. The spacecraft rises toward the heavens exactly as, in our finest moments as a nation, our hearts have risen toward justice and principle.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Inspiration, Heart, Past

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• In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Hatred, Ends

  Twitter post from Sep 16, 2015

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• To Amma, all are Her children. In Amma's eyes no defect of Her children is serious. But when She is considered as the guru, it is essential for the growth of the disciples that they conduct themselves according to the tradition. Amma will pardon all the mistakes of Her children, but nature has certain laws. That is what brings punishment for our sins. Children, we should be able to take any sorrow or suffering as conducive for our growth.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Mistake, Eye

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• I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.

  James Taylor

  Sadness, Gold

  Song: Golden Moments, Album: In The Pocket

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