Cornelia Meigs Quotes

Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.

Cornelia Meigs

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• Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Like
  • Lies
  • Everything

• 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
  • God
  • Sweet
  • Patience

• Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • Great
  • Sorrow

• The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, it’s all there.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Life
  • Love
  • Pain

• [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
  • Today
  • Worry
  • Sorrow

• Lack of knowledge is the

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Knowledge
  • Pain
  • Sorrow

• 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
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Words

• 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
  • World
  • Heart
  • Man

• Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.

  

  J. C. Macaulay
  • Sorrow
  • Consolation
  • Console

• 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
  • May
  • Soul
  • Sex

• I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Grief
  • Sorrow
  • Maps

• Sorrow makes men sincere.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Sorrow
  • Sincere

• We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • Sorrow
  • Meet

• To revive sorrow is cruel.

  

  Sophocles
  • Sorrow
  • Cruel
  • Revive

• The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Sacrifice
  • Sorrow
  • Sense Of Peace

• Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Joy
  • Reflection

• Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Choices
  • Library
  • Sorrow

• For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Done
  • Sorrow
  • Ends

• To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to some small star. Philosopher. Whilst she yet lives, were stars decay'd, Their light by hers relief might find; But Death will lead her to a shade Where Love is cold and Beauty blind. Lover. Lovers, whose priests all poets are, Think every mistress, when she dies, Is changed at least into a star: And who dares doubt the poet wise? Philosopher. But ask not bodies doom'd to die To what abode they go; Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

  

  William Davenant
  • Time
  • Wise
  • Beauty

• Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.

  

  Shaggy
  • Sometimes
  • Impossible
  • Sorrow

• I think that certainly is a factor in some of the scores. It takes more time to get a shot against a zone than it does man-to-man. Teams that are playing zone probably aren't fouling as much, so you aren't getting as many points at the free throw line.

  

  Eddie Sutton
  • Teams
  • Points
  • Factor

• I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of society.

  

  Ella T. Grasso
  • Society
  • Protection
  • Deserves

• Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.

  

  Cornelia Meigs
  • Sorrow