Sorrow Quotes - Page 37

• The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Disappointment, Compassion, Average

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• Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

  Orville Dewey

  Heart, Broken, Sin

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• I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

  Fanny Burney

  Sleep, Joy, Restless

  Fanny Burney (1820). “Evelina; Or, The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World”, p.259

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• Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  Memories, Worst

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• I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect

  Shelagh Delaney

  Drinking, People, Forget

  Shelagh Delaney (1963). “Sweetly Sings the Donkey”

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• There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

  Sue Grafton

  Men, Sound, Terrible

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"H" is for Homicide”, p.95, Macmillan

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• ... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

  Belva Plain

  Coats, Worn, Worn Out

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• I stand here empty, waiting to b filled. I stand here weary of days bombarded with sorrows & ill. Yet, I STAND. For I know it is not of my strength; I know it is not my will. So with my eyes fixed on the prize and a rejoicing soul, I stand with a prayerful heart, waiting for my blessing. I stand, knowing my blessing will com.

  Shane Smith

  Motivational, Heart, Eye

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• The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Children, Spring, Grief

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.

  Candace Wheeler

  Blessed, Shining, Joy

  Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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• Children of yesterday, / Heirs of to-morrow, / What are you weaving? / Labor and sorrow? / Look to your looms again. / Faster and faster / Fly the great shuttles / Prepared by the Master, / Life's in the loom, / Room for it - / Room!

  Mary Lasswell

  Life, Hope, Children

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• Come all ye that pass by, and see if there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow.

  Maria W. Stewart

  Ifs

  Maria W. Stewart, Marilyn Richardson (1987). “Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches”, p.116, Indiana University Press

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• This conversion into prayer of our everyday joys, sorrows, hopes and desires is at first a conscious labor, but after a while it becomes second nature, so that converse with God becomes inextricably and wonderfully woven into the fabric of our lives.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Prayer, Joy, Everyday

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• And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Happiness, Girl, Pain

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• Our joys will be doubled and our sorrows will be reduced and we will walk our life in community with the body of Christ. When you are with someone else, you are not nearly as willing to give up. So find a friend, be honest and walk together.

  Jennifer Rothschild

  Giving Up, Community, Joy

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• Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Joy, Bed, Half

  Kathleen Winsor, Barbara Taylor Bradford (2012). “Forever Amber”, p.105, Chicago Review Press

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• Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life.

  Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

  Love, Lasts, Moments

  'Celestine.'

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• I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Laughter, Flower, Wish

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1899). “A Village Ophelia”

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• There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Mean, Journey, Escaping

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Eye, Giving, Brain

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.142, The Floating Press

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• Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.

  Jennifer Stone

  Light, Rubbish, Tranquility

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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• Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sin, Repentance, Amendments

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• Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Christian, Mind, Tears

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.151

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• My rage is gone,
  And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up.
  Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.
  Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully,
  Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city he
  Hath widowed and unchilded many a one,
  Which to this hour bewail the injury,
  Yet he shall have a noble memory.
  Assist.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Book, Cities

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1853). “The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered Portfolio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations ; with a History of the Stage, a Life of the Poet, and an Introduction to Each Play”, p.202

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• Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Fall, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler”, p.330

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