Quotes About Sorrow

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

sorrow than in anger," and it begins to be suspected that he never intended to injure or offend.

Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it—I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while—yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.5

Tears..." Pho-Poh told Mrs. Lim, as if her friend instead had asked the question. "... tears save us from damnation.

We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving this world, when everyone around us cries.

Then he took one look around the room, dropped his briefcase with a thud, and burst into tears.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry,The subject of it is War, and the pity of War.The Poetry is in the pity.All a poet can do is warn.

As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul.

You shall not hear their mirth: You shall not come to think them well content By any jest of mine. These men are worth Your tears:You are not worth their merriment.

For by my glee might many men have laughed, And of my weeping may something have been left, Which must die now.

We are all such egotists that a sorrow or hardship—provided it is great enough—flatters our self-importance. We feel that a calamity by overtaking us has distinguished us above our fellows. A man likes not to be ignored even by a railway accident. A man with a grievance is always happy.

Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop.

I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.

I had traveled far, had circled the planet and studied my Torah, and at the very end of my search I was standing, finally, in the place where everything begins: the tree in the garden, the tree of knowledge that, as I learned long ago, is something divided, something that because growth occurs only through the medium of time, brings both pleasure and, finally, sorrow.

There are many ways to lose your relatives, I thought; war is only one of them.

sunt lacrimae rerum, "There are tears in things.

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

Only the spoon," replied the don , "knows the pot's sorrows.

Que un hijo muera antes que su padre. Revierte el orden natural de las cosas. —Arrojó su cigarrillo al fuego—. Uno no puede llorar como es debido.

A terrible thing, isn't it?" "What's that, Ari?" "For the child to die before the parent. It upends the natural order of things.

For the child to die before the parent. It upends the natural order of things . One can't grieve properly. One can only think of vengeance. - Ari Shamron I

The bodies draped down through the leaves like rancid baubles in the locks of a horrible harlot.

He's got that 'born to lose and lose violently' air about him. That's good.