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Quotes About Sorrows

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
~ Charles Reade
Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.
~ Emma Goldman
Music is the language of the soul. Music captures our prayers and hopes and joys—and yes, our sorrows—and gives them voice, just as the paintings and the statues give them dimension.
~ Susan Meissner
I'd been too afraid my tears would christen it with my sorrows. I wanted nothing about the fire to exist in my
~ Susan Meissner
In my experience, people's sorrows are always in danger of bursting out; it's only through careful inattention that they can be contained.
~ Suzanne Berne
We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers - a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.
~ Guy Finley
My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
~ Mason Cooley
I was, by divine grace, enabled to bring all my sins and all my sorrows and lay them at the feet of Jesus, and to receive the blessed assurance that He had accepted me, all sinful and polluted as I was.
~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Head full of sorrows, heart full of dreams. How to maintain the latter as life progresses? How not to let the first cancel the second?
~ Charles Frazier
is it not written, that those who make haste to be rich, pierce themselves through with many sorrows?
~ Charles Kingsley
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.
~ Chris Bohjalian
And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
A husband comes home from satsang and greets his wife, lifts her up and carries her around the house. His wife is surprised and asks, 'Did the Swami ji preach about being romantic today?' Her husband replies, 'No, he said we must carry our burdens and sorrows with a smile.
~ Khushwant Singh
As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.
~ George MacDonald
Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
~ Charles Reed
When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, But in battalions!
~ William Shakespeare
All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Sorrows are like thunderclouds - in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
~ Jean Paul Richter
The past is never completely lost, khowever extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be tomorrow are because of what you have been.
~ Gordon Wright
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.
~ Josh Billings
I can't think of anybody…who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret self all the time when I don't feel strong, the sorrows of time and personality, and can therefore on all levels make it all the way with me
~ Jack Kerouac
Gus was looking at him for confirmation of all his sorrows.
~ Jack Kerouac
There was excitement and the air was filled with the vibration of really joyous life that knows nothing of disappointment and "white sorrows" and all that
~ Jack Kerouac