Sorrow Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• 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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• Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.

  James Taylor

  Sadness, Night, Light

  Song: Don't Be Sad 'cause Your Sun is Down

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• Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Sadness, Rainy Day, People

  Song: Rainy Day People, Album: Cold on the Shoulder, 1975

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• Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Sadness, Sky, Tears

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• Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher.

  Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

  Real, May, Matter

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• There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.

  Homer

  Advantage, Grim, Lamentation

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.517, University of Chicago Press

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• Many of us may have watched the waves at sea. They rise, then fall, then rise again, then fall again... and this cycle continues endlessly. It is the same with our experience of the world and its objects and relationships. We may find happiness, but this happiness will soon turn to sorrow. The sorrow that we feel will subsequently turn back to happiness but this oscillation continues endlessly. In order to maintain inner balance, we need to find peace within instead of depending on the external world.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Fall, Order

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• I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Men, Bitterness, Injustice

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.5, 谷月社

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• Why will we struggle to attain, and strive,
  When all we gain is but an empty dream?--
  Better, unto my thinking, doth it seem
  To end it all and let who will survive;
  To find at last all beauty is but dust;
  That love and sorrow are the very same;
  That joy is only suffering's sweeter name;
  And sense is but the synonym of lust.
  Far better, yea, to me it seems to die;
  To set glad lips against the lips of Death--
  The only thing God gives that comforteth,
  The only thing we do not find a lie.

  Madison Cawein

  Death, Dream, Lying

  Madison Julius Cawein, “The Land Of Illusion”

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• Nay, do not grieve tho' life be full of sadness,
  Dawn will not veil her spleandor for your grief,
  Nor spring deny their bright, appointed beauty
  To lotus blossom and ashoka leaf.
  
  Nay, do not pine, tho' life be dark with trouble,
  Time will not pause or tarry on his way;
  To-day that seems so long, so strange, so bitter,
  Will soon be some forgotten yesterday.
  
  Nay, do not weep; new hopes, new dreams, new faces,
  The unspent joy of all the unborn years,
  Will prove your heart a traitor to its sorrow,
  And make your eyes unfaithful to their tears.

  Sarojini Naidu

  Life, Dream, Spring

  Sarojini Naidu (1916). “The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death & the Spring”

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• 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

  Creativity, Despair, World

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• If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

  Nat King Cole

  Philosophy, Maybe Tomorrow, Shining

  Song: Smile

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• My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Unification Church, Action

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• Once you are enlightened, you can do whatever you want without fear or sorrow. You can go snowboarding, get married, stay single, be rich and famous, or live unknown in a high Himalayan cave. It is up to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Snowboarding

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Spring is on the way; summer is on the way; storms are on the way; wars are on the way; sorrow and happiness are on the way; they are all on the way, they are coming! Everything is on the way! Life is a highway; while we are moving on the way, all else is coming towards us! Devil is on the way; angel is on the way! Stay firm on the way!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Summer, Perseverance, War

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• In a world of discouragement, sorrow, and overmuch sin, in times when fear and despair seem to prevail, when humanity is feverish with no worldly physicians in sigh, I too say, Trust Jesus. Let Him still the tempest and ride upon the storm. Believe that He can lift mankind from its bed of affliction, in time and in eternity.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Jesus, Believe, Humanity

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• Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.

  Walter Wangerin

  Littles, Speakers

  Walter Wangerin (2013). “The Book of the Dun Cow”, p.22, Diversion Books

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• The only thing pain can wring from a soul that has abandoned resistance and from a mind that has lost its hate is sorrow

  Yi Mun-yol

  Pain, Hate, Soul

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• English life is nothing but a huge masquerade ball in which the participants contrive to conceal their feelings, their addresses, their hobbies, their incomes, their decorations, their sorrows, their talents, their achievements, and even their names.

  Pierre Daninos

  Names, Achievement, Feelings

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• [Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.

  Sadegh Hedayat

  Death, Pain, Asylums

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• Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with many kinds of sorrow. Learn of the wonderful heroism of the poor, of the incredible generosity of the very poor

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Night, Generosity, Heroism

  Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”

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• Every day is a fresh beginning; Listen my soul, to the glad refrain, And in spite of old sorrow… and possible pain, Take heart with the day and begin again.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Pain, Heart, Soul

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