Sorrow Quotes - Page 30

• Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.

  John Vianney

  Christian, Mother, Blessed

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• Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

  David Berg

  Funeral, Heavenly

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• Can you visualize a world with no more death, no more pain, no more hunger, no more fear, no more sorrow, no more crying nor sickness, a world where everything is a joy and a pleasure? - A society where everybody works together in harmony, cooperation and love? That's Heaven!

  David Berg

  Pain, Joy, Heaven

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• I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sadness, Drawing, People

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.

  Al-Ghazali

  Suffering, Affliction, Want

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• I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Today, Chance

  "Blair: Britain's 'sorrow' for shame of slave trade" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2006.

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• We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.

  Pema Chodron

  Loneliness, Forever, Acting

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Comfort

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “Fear and Trembling”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Joy, Doubt, Height

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• Endless sorrow has fallen upon my heart.

  Olympia Brown

  Heart, Endless, Fallen

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• When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.

  Max Muller

  Evil, Deeds, Fool

  F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.

  Roger Scruton

  Home, Joy, Purpose

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• Love rejoices in good wherever it finds it; envy is pained by good, and the sight of the happiness of others hurts the eyes and the heart of the envious man. Love wishes to give; envy would rather receive. Love creates; envy destroys. Love builds up; envy pulls down. Love helps those in need, comforts the afflicted, and strives to turn all that is evil into good; envy would turn the little happiness to be found in this world into evil, sorrow, and pain.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Love, Hurt, Pain

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.61, Sophia Institute Press

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• Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Strong, Sadness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.152

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• Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fate, Joy, World

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1891). “The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

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• Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Regret, Wine, Sleep

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• I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity - because as a lover of my county, I trembled at the coming day of wrath.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Christian, Mother, Wrath

  On Uncle Tom's Cabin in a letter to Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman, January 20, 1853.

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• Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Men, Joy

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• Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm of passion, and soften the heart when shaken by sorrow to its inmost depths.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Nature, Passion, Heart

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• The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

  William Osler

  Grief, Men, Joy

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.31, ACP Press

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• Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is avoided, goodness seems delightful.

  Shantideva

  Pride, Evil, Suffering

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• Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

  Hermann Hesse

  Suffering, Ends

  Hermann Hesse (1998). “Siddhartha”

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• The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Ideas, Realization

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• Oh God, God, please come to me, please illumine me, please act in me and through me. I don't know what's right and what's wrong. I can't tell anymore. I could be doing what I feel is right and perhaps I'm deceiving myself. Perhaps it's all my ego and my vanity. Please show me what's right or don't even show me. Please just do it, whether it brings me happiness or unhappiness, riches or poverty, sorrow or joy. Please act in and through me. I love only you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Vanity, Joy

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• When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.

  Marvin Gaye

  Children, Future, Suffering

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