Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.Mikhail Lermontov
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When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
Irvin Mayfield -
Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. Travers -
The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
Barbara Sher -
We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
Oswald Chambers -
Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
Oswald Chambers -
[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
A.J. Cronin
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Lack of knowledge is the
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.
Pablo Neruda -
When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.
Saint Augustine -
My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.
Amy Lowell -
And I laughed so hard I think I died
Jon Bon Jovi -
The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
Oscar Wilde
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Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
J. C. Macaulay -
Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.
Freya Stark -
But the people of the Baltic nations also knew that freedom needs a foundation of security.
Barack Obama -
I would invite all Latin people to do nothing for about two weeks so you can see who really, really is running the economy I am here to give voice to the invisible.
Carlos Santana Santana -
When I write a song today, basically it goes on the stage tomorrow. That's the way it works. You cannont interrupt your consciousness; it all comes from the subconscious, it can happen anywhere. It could be in a telephone booth.
Richie Havens