Sorrow Quotes
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Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.
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I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today.
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I hate her." Merlin laughed, tossing the stick down. "Not so. You have forgotten how to love. That's a different sorrow.
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All things are dark to sorrow.
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Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have. It doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, just empties today of its strength.
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The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.
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May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow.
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Behind one pain there is another. Sorrow is a wave without end. But the horse mustn't ride you, you must ride it.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.
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Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
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Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
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T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.
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Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
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A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.
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Sometimes you gotta laugh through the tears, smile through the pain so that you can live through the sorrow.
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I liked to discover connections like that, especially if they concerned Lila. I traced lines between moments and events distant from one another, I established convergences and divergences. In that period it became a daily exercise: the better off I had been in Ischia, the worse off Lila had been in the desolation of the neighborhood; the more I had suffered upon leaving the island, the happier she had become. It was as if, because of an evil spell, the joy or sorrow of one required the sorrow or joy of the other; even our physical aspect, it seemed to me, shared in that swing.
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I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the use of praying? - it's only a sin! It is strange, too, that I am not sleepy: in great, too great sorrow, after the first outbursts one is always sleepy. Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it si the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out... I lay down on the sofa but I did not sleep...
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The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
