Sorrow Quotes
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Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
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I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.
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Sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it.
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In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.
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Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
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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.
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I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
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And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.
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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.
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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
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Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
