Sorrow Quotes - Page 39

• To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.

  Michael Ende

  Wise, Hate, Ambition

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• The solution to staying on the right side of the fine line between using and abusing grace is repentance. The road to repentance is godly sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow is developed when we focus on the true nature of sin as an offense against God rather than something that makes us feel guilty.

  Jerry Bridges

  Godly, Focus, Grace

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• Monkey Beach is a moody, powerful novel full of memorable characters. Reading it was like entering a pool of emerald water to discover a haunted world shivering with loss and love, regret and sorrow, where the spirit world is as real as the human. I was sucked into it with the very first sentence and when I left, it was with a feeling of immense reluctance.

  Anita Rau Badami

  Beach, Powerful, Regret

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• My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.'

  Pete Hamill

  Book, Ambition, Weather

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• Every parent who has ever said a few words over a goldfish in a toilet bowl
  or felt the numbness of an unexpected diagnosis in a pediatrician's office will appreciate the heartfelt wisdom in It's Okay to Cry. Norm Wright tenderly and skillfully equips parents to help children cultivate a healthy response to life's many pains and sorrows.

  Lori Borgman

  Children, Pain, Heart

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• I have had my share of sorrows-more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Should Have, Broken

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Hard Times”, p.169

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• It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining in their long, long distances. And it is in sorrow - the night of the soul - that we see farthest, and know ourselves natives of infinity, and sons and daughters of the Most High.

  William Mountford

  Daughter, Distance, Son

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.379

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• We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Joy, Should

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• I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore,
  Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be,
  Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!

  William Butler Yeats

  Flames, Sea, White

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.130, Penguin

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• The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Joy, Triumph, Human Experience

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• There is some joy in weeping. For our tears
  Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away.

  Ovid

  Pain, Joy, Tears

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• People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.

  Stendhal

  Family, Heart, Self

  Stendhal (1986). “Armance”, Dufour Editions

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• And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and anger but simply through everyday discoveries, life unwrapped. To see a child touch the piano keys for the first time, to watch a small body slice through the surface of the water in a clean dive, is to experience the shock, not of the new, but of the familiar revisited as though it were strange and wonderful.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Discovery, Piano

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• Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is, but I am never so perfectly conscious of the existence of a soul within me, as when I am entangled in them.

  Laurence Sterne

  Adventure, Knights, Soul

  Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Geoffrey Day (2006). “A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts”, p.156, Hackett Publishing

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• For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.

  Hesiod

  Night, Men, Race

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• The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).

  Samuel Beckett

  Eye, Tears, Humans

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Murphy”, p.51, Faber & Faber

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• If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Humanity, Cottages, Ruins

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.24

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• From our sorrow we might seek out the sweetness and the good that is often associated with and peculiar to our challenge. We can seek out those memorable moments that are frequently hidden by the pain and agony. We can find peace in extending ourselves to others, using our own experiences to provide hope and comfort. And we can always remember with great solemnity and gratitude Him who suffered most to make it all right for us. And by so doing we can be strengthened to bear our burdens in peace. And then, the 'works of God' might be manifest.

  Richard C. Edgley

  Gratitude, Pain, Memorable

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• Man's feeble race what ills await!
  Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain,
  Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train,
  And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!

  Thomas Gray

  Life, Pain, Fate

  Thomas Gray (1836). “The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).”, p.28

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• We mourn; we sorrow for our loved ones that go - our wives, our husbands, our children, our parents; we sorrow for them; and it is well and proper that we should moum for them and shed tears for the loss, for it is our loss; but it is their gain, for it is in the march of progress, advancement and development. It will be all right when our time comes, when we have finished our work and accomplished what the Lord required of us.

  Francis M. Lyman

  Children, Husband, Loss

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• There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Leadership, Wisdom, Pain

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• Science tries to answer the question: "How?" How do cells act in the body? How do you design an airplane that will fly faster thansound? How is a molecule of insulin constructed? Religion, by contrast, tries to answer the question: "Why?" Why was man created? Why ought I to tell the truth? Why must there be sorrow or pain or death? Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

  Warren Weaver

  Pain, Airplane, Science

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• Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep,
  Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow,
  And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.

  Edwin Muir

  Lying, Thinking, Sometimes

  Edwin Muir, “The Horses”

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• Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.

  Thomas Huxley

  Pain, Eye, Doors

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.323, University of Georgia Press

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• Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality. When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.

  Adyashanti

  Hurt, Reality, Love Is

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