Sorrow Quotes
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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
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The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.
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Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.
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The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.
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Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.
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Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand.
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In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.
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On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.
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Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.
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I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.
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Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.
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Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.
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The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.
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This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.
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Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.
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Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.
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Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
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Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.
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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.
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Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?
