Quotes About Sorrow

Within sadness lives a happiness deeper than any pain.

We long for that promised day, when there will be no more death or sorrow, no more crying or pain, when things as we know them are passed away. We are ready, Lord, to be instruments of Your peace, soldiers for Your kingdom.

Lloyd felt as though he had just lost the woman he loved more than everyone else on earth

Every happiness is a bright ray between shadows, every gaiety bracketed by grief. There is no birth that does not recall a death, no victory but brings to mind a defeat.

The trouble with weeping was that once begun, it became almost impossible to stop.

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.

It is the blight man was born for,It is Margaret you mourn for.

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went! And more must, in yet longer light's delay.

It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.

Daar, in dat meubelloze, ondanks de gezinsgrootte lege kamertje, temidden van de stapel naar verschaalde terpentijn riekende kerstbomen, ervoer ik voor het eerst in volle hevigheid de verlatenheid, die de onmiddellijke nabijheid van een in stomme aanbidding vereerd maar voor altijd onbereikbaar wezen inhoudt.

Een mooie avond,' zei Frits. 'Zoek jij ook graag de ellende van deze wereld? Wandel je Zondags ook graag op kerkhoven? De meeste mensen denken nergens aan.

Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.

Pigeons on the grass alas.

They say that life is about balance. That it trades one sorrow for one joy and so forth until it finds some kind of harmony. Well, I want none of it. I've never been as dead as I was when I was balanced. I don't want life to be contained. I want it unbound, inspired. Alive.

Happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure which man possesses.

Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.

To that creature, being born, Its birthday is a day to mourn

Everything that is ended, everything that is last, naturally awakens in man a feeling of sorrow and melancholy. At the same time, it excites a pleasurable feeling, pleasurable in that very sorrow, and that is because of the infiniteness of the idea that is contained in the words ended, last, etc. ( Thus by their nature such words are, and always will be, poetic, however ordinary and common they are, in whatever language and style.)

My thoughts are drowned, and shipwreck seems sweet to me in this sea.

Che pensieri soavi, che speranze, che cori, o Silvia mia! Quale allor ci apparia la vita umana e il fato! Quando sovviemmi di cotanta speme, un affetto mi preme acerbo e sconsolato, e tornami a doler di mia sventura. O natura, o natura, perché non rendi poi quel che prometti allor? perché di tanto inganni i figli tuoi?

E tu, cui già dal cominciar degli anni sempre onorata invoco, bella Morte, pietosa tu sola al mondo dei terreni affanni[…] chiudi alla luce omai questi occhi tristi […] nel mio sangue innocente non ricolmar di lode, non benedir, com'usa per antica viltà l'umana gente

The certain, lonely knowledge [120] that everything is vain but grief.

Incaute voci Spande il tuo labbro : i destinati eventi Move arcano consiglio. Arcano è tutto, Fuor che il nostro dolor. Voix inutiles Verse ta lèvre : c'est un secret vouloir Qui meut les destinées. Tout est secret Hormis notre douleur. (Ultimo canto di Saffo, Dernier chant de Sappho)