Quotes About Sorrow

Love and grief come as a package deal. If you love, you will one day know sorrow.

They were good parents. The worst thing they ever did to us was die.

Non c'è dispiacere più grande che ricordare la gioia passata nell'infelicità. 

A young chief, Chungu, did all he could for them, for when the Doctor explored these regions before, Chungu had been much impressed with him: and now, throwing off all the native superstition, he looked on the arrival of the dead body as a cause of real sorrow.

To perceive others as fully human means to be saddened by the death of every single person, regardless of the population, group, or part of the world from which he comes, and regardless of our own personal acquaintance with him. If we accord him identity, then we must individualize his death [and] … if we accord him community, then we must experience his death as a personal loss.

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their puny fist in the face of God Almighty.

Your tears were collected by the angels and were placed in a golden chalice, and you will find them when you present yourself before God.

There are spaces of sorrow only God can touch.

The Word of God tells us of the day when tears shall be gone forever. Until we come to that day, we move through this world in the midst of tears.

I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry--I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart--God knows what its name was--that tears started to my eyes.

Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart.

A tear is enough water to float a desire to God.

O God, take all our sorrows and use them to show us the nature of our joy.

People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself is a gift from God. It is the symbol of His compassion.

Lord, I fashion dark gods, too, Daring even to give You Dark despairing features

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.

Blue. My God! I'm so blue that if I were a dog, I'd sit on my haunches and howl and howl and howl...