Quotes About Sorrow

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

Despair is despair, sorrow is sorrow, death is death. It's not about who is experiencing it; it's about building a bridge of empathy across these experiences.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

The criminal law is not meant to respond to every sorrow and grief.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.

I want to sit in my own sorrow, cry it out, talk to God, and say, 'Give me strength, wisdom.'

When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

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.

An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.

The consequences of ignoring the Lord and His prophets are certain and often accompanied by great sorrow and regret.

I thought of my father and felt a deep sorrow that he should no longer be alive, and that I could not go to him and tell him that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize. I knew that no one would have been happier than he to hear this.

Though I continue to tell stories about Iraq, I sometimes fear this makes me a fraud. I feel guilty about the sorrow I feel because I know it is manufactured, and I feel guilty about the sorrow I do not feel because it is owed, it is the barest beginnings of what is owed to the fallen.

When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't - at least not in the moment.

Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.