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Quotes About Sorrow

Suffering is the sorrow of joy.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I already know sorrow. Today I choose joy.
~ Lynda Cheldelin Fell
Never let the salt of your tears be tasteless in grief.
~ Munia Khan
Dance your pain, sing your sorrows, because there is nothing else tomorrow.
~ Santosh Kalwar
Depersonalized Personalized Sin Breaking a rule Betraying a relationship Repentance Admitting guilt Sorrowing over personal betrayal Forgiveness Canceling a penalty Renewing fellowship Faith Believing a set of propositions Committing oneself to a person Christian life Obeying rules Pleasing the Lord
~ James W. Sire
Truly, deep and profound words do not make a person holy and upright, but a good life is what makes us dear to God. I would rather experience sorrow for my ungodly thoughts and actions than simply be skillful in defining "repentance.
~ James Watkins
In the living room Goodrich's father sat in a large chair across from the sofa, motionless. He appeared very tired. His mother stood nervously behind the chair, obviously dreading his entrance into the room.
~ James Webb
Find Sister Caroline…And she's tired—She's weary—Go down, Death, and bring her to me.
~ James Weldon Johnson
Whose starboard eye Saw chariot 'swing low'?
~ James Weldon Johnson
Grief, I've learned, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.
~ Jamie Anderson
The habit of trusting God - could there be such a thing? Could such a habit be a lifeline when tribulations swept over you? Could you hang on to it during the worst of the storm without seeing any evidence that it was real? And then when the strongest waves and winds of sorrow had passed, could you realise that what you had held in your hands all along was genuine, that it was your means of rescue?
~ Jamie Langston Turner
A scene took shape in my mind of myself weeping over Thomas's blood-soaked, outstretched form, a ridiculous scene in which I urged, "Git up, Person, git up!" Actually, I could not recall the last time I had shed tears. It was something that I had stopped doing many years ago.
~ Jamie Langston Turner
sorrow and joy always walk hand to hand, like sisters. Where is light, there is also shadow, and where the happiness is the greatest, there always lingers a trail of misfortune.
~ Jan Guillou
Sorrow and joy, he thought, so inextricably entwined that he could scarcely tell where one left off and the other began.
~ Jan Karon
But then, What is not vain, by God, in lives of men? All is in vain! We play at blind man's buff Until hard edges break into out path. Man life's is error. Where, then, is relief? In shedding tears or wrestling down my grief?
~ Jan Kochanowski
O z?a Persefono, Mog?a?e? tak wielu ?zam da? up?yna? p?ono?
~ Jan Kochanowski
O cattiva Proserpina, come puoi tollerare che invano sian versate tante lacrime amare?...
~ Jan Kochanowski
Hij keek even naar de drol. Het uiteinde glansde van een slijmerige bloederige afscheiding. In het stuk krant hield hij hem als een sigaar tussen zijn vingers, bracht hem halverwege naar zijn mond en keek mismoedig met treurige hondeogen naar een denkbeeldige voorbijganger. 'Hebt u een vuurtje voor me,' vroeg hij somber.
~ Jan Wolkers
Not that having multiple children diminished the loss of another, but when there was only one and they were lost, there was nothing left at all.
~ Jana Deleon
Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown.
~ Jane Austen, Emma
Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.
~ Jane Hirshfield
To Hear the Falling World Only if I move my arm a certain way, it comes back. Or the way the light bends in the trees this time of year, so a scrap of sorrow, like a bird, lights on the heart. I carry this in my body, seed in an unswept corner, husk-encowled and seeming safe. But they guard me, these small pains, from growing sure of myself and perhaps forgetting.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Pompei Quante case diventano una Pompei vivente, non spolverate, non sgombre La catastrofe non è soltanto improvvisa I cuori si fermano in tutti i modi non solo uno A volte la chiave di casa va perduta a volte la serratura A volte il significato di una fine sta nel bussare che non è stato fatto p#163
~ Jane Hirshfield
And I knew then that I would have to live, and go on living: what sorrow it was; and still what sorrow ignites but does not consume my heart.
~ Jane Kenyon