Sorrow Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Men, Evil, Age

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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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• Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

  Bernard Malamud

  Life, Loss, Joy

  Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (2003). “Dubin's Lives: A Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

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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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• Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation, - we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with theirs, and generation after generation have pleaded with a headstrong, careless people to despise not Justice, Mercy and Truth, lest the nation be smitten with a curse. Our song, our toil, our cheer and warning have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts worth the giving? Is not this worth the striving? Would America have been America without her Negro People?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Song, Cheer, Blood

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• Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

  Euripides

  Wise, Joy, One Line Friendship

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• I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Nature, Morning, Purple

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

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Nature, Animal, Emotion

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• Just as the right hand comes to dress the wound on the left hand, we should see another person's sorrows as our own and come to his or her aid.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Hands, Left Hand, Dresses

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring.

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Spring, Autumn, Men

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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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• It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Grief, Tears, Affliction

  Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) (1951). “The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A New Translation Based on Studies in the Language of the Autograph”

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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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• May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Dream, Love You, Evil

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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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• I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.

  Louise Penny

  Hate, Loneliness, Writing

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