Sorrow Quotes
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Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
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I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow.
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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.
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Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou are sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness. Rest, oh, weary heart!
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There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow.
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I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.
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I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
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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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I do not know how I got through without breaking down, without my heart bursting from sorrow and shame.
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My wails of sorrow are tormenting my soul
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Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.
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I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
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Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.
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What sweeter than this in the world! Friend met friend and the lover joined his Beloved. That was all sorrow, this is all joy Those were all words, this is all reality.
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Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.
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Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood.
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As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure.
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Where would we go If we didn’t have sorrow and death?
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.
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Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.
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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.
