Sorrow Quotes - Page 27

• This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.

  Farid al-Din Attar

  Friendship, True Friend, Support

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• Great sorrow makes sacred the sufferer.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Sacred, Sufferers

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• Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

  Petrarch

  Grief, Incredibles, Slave

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Joy

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• Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grief, Rain, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4053, Delphi Classics

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• Au revoir, pidgeon. Sweeting is such part sorrow.

  Pepe

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• Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings: - How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, War, Writing

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• Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

  George Eliot

  Women, Would Be, Half

  'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 2

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• To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Office, Hypocrisy

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• 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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• There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.

  Marcel Proust

  Grief, Dust, Leaving

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.2508, Jester House Publishing

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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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• 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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• This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

  Jacob Lawrence

  Ghetto, Black, Tragedy

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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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• We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any

  Confucius

  Wise, Heart, Men

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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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• 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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• How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Stars, Moving, Long

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• We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Men, Joy, Today

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

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