Sorrow Quotes - page 26

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain. (Terry Bradshaw)
I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy. View quote
Thalia
So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them. View quote
Thomas Hooker
Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine. View quote
William Gilmore Simms
Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop. View quote
Will Christopher Baer
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain! View quote
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust - ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable, and life is more than a dream. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
"Oh! the years I have lost,” will be the exclamation of a man, if he be not philosophical, and not possess Friedrich Nietzsche's appreciation of the value of sorrow in education. View quote
Oscar Levy
I would like to stress that the obligation [of being Queen] has always been driven by joy. The joy is rooted in the warmth that has met me and my family everywhere through every year, in celebration and joy as in sorrow, in the so-called "big days", as well as in everyday life. View quote
Margrethe II of Denmark
What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or the soul's impulsive throb, as immortality draws on? Be what it may, it rested in the heart of Eva, a calm, sweet, prophetic certainty that Heaven was near; calm as the light of sunset, sweet as the bright stillness of autumn, there her little heart reposed, only troubled by sorrow for those who loved her so dearly. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
From far, far in the distant past, Down to this day, this very instant, Those things we have longed for most Have not been attained, and we sorrow. View quote
Ippen
You don't need to control emotion,” he said. "Emotions are natural, like passing weather. Sometimes it's fear, sometimes sorrow or anger. Emotions are not the problem. The key is to transform the energy of emotion into constructive action. View quote
Dan Millman
Woman, please let me explain I never meant to cause you sorrow or pain So let me tell you again and again and again... I love you Now and forever. View quote
John Lennon
I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me. View quote
Inayat Khan
Farewel, thou cruel world! – to morrow No more thy scorn my heart shall tear: – The grave will shield the child of sorrow, And heaven will hear the orphan's prayer. View quote
Matthew Lewis (writer)
Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
But let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye. View quote
Leonard Cohen
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye. View quote
Leonard Cohen
That's all the glory my heart is after, Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you. I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous. View quote
François Rabelais
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted. (Thomas Hardy)
I do want your happiness. But the absence of fighting or hatred or desire also means the opposites do not exist either. No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Whate'er there be of Sorrow I'll put off till To-morrow, And when To-morrow comes, why then 'T will be To-day and Joy again. View quote
John Kendrick Bangs
We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly. View quote
Max Lucado
I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow. View quote
Henry Ossawa Tanner