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Quotes About Sorrows

Lightheartedness was a treasure in a world too full of sorrows, a treasure little regarded and widely forfeited to agression, greed and horrendous tribal rituals.
~ Dick Francis
Memories are both our greatest treasures and our greatest sorrows.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
We've survived what we feared. But can we survive the remembering? Memories are both our greatest treasures and our greatest sorrows.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
revolutionary music hurts the ears after awhile. There's no nostalgia in it, no place for people to share their sorrows. Of course," Big Mother continued hurriedly,
~ Madeleine Thien
You have shared your secret. I think you will find it to be an unburdening in many other ways. You have very considerable natural advantages. You have nothing to fear from life. A day will come when these recent unhappy years may seem no more than that cloud-stain over there upon Chesil Bank. You shall stand in sunlight—and smile at your own past sorrows.
~ John Fowles
MRS. PEACHUM Well, Polly; as far as one woman can forgive another, I forgive thee.—Your father is too fond of you, hussy. POLLY Then all my sorrows are at an end. MRS. PEACHUM A mighty likely speech in troth, for a wench who is just married!
~ John Gay
I do not know why sorrows come and burning teardrops fall; I only know God still is God And watches over all.
~ John Gilbert
I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.
~ Unknown
The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The gifts of grace increase as the sorrows increase.
~ Rose of Lima
She is a master of disguise; See that smile, it has hidden sorrows.
~ Unknown
People are always telling me to smile, like smiling is going to just take away all the hurt and pain. Well I've tried that I've tried hiding my sorrows and covering the sadness in smiles and what I've learned is that when it hurts this much inside your heart always has a way of showing it no matter how many masks you wear.
~ Unknown
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
~ Unknown
And once the novelist has brought us to this state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied ten-fold, into which his book comes disturb us as might a dream, but a dream more lucid and more abiding than those that come to us in sleep, why then, for the space of an hour he sets free within us all the joys and sorrows in the world.
~ Marcel Proust
Like the fires caught and fixed by a great colourist from the impermanence of the atmosphere and the sun, so that they should enter and adorn a human dwelling, they invited me, those chrysanthemums, to put away all my sorrows and to taste with a greedy rapture during that tea-time hour the all-too-fleeting pleasures of November, whose intimate and mysterious splendour they set ablaze all around me.
~ Marcel Proust
Ideas are substitutes for sorrows; when the latter change into ideas they lose part of their noxious action on our hearts and even at the first instant their very transformation disengages a feeling of joy.
~ Marcel Proust
But the true nature which we repress continues nevertheless to abide within us. Thus it is that at times, if we read the latest masterpiece of a man of genius, we are delighted to find in it all those of our own reflexions which we have despised, joys and sorrows which we have repressed, a whole world of feelings we have scorned, and whose value the book in which we discover them afresh suddenly teaches us.
~ Marcel Proust
We resonate with one another's sorrows because we are interconnected. Being whole and simultaneously part of a larger whole, we can change the world simply by changing ourselves. If I become a center of love and kindness in this moment, then in a perhaps small but hardly insignificant way, the world now has a nucleus of love and kindness it lacked the moment before. This benefits me and it benefits others.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about.
~ Unknown
Despite the sorrows of sin, you can count on God's faithfulness and forgiveness.
~ Jim George
Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall
~ Virginia Woolf
Have courage for the great sorrows in life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace, God is awake.
~ Victor Hugo
Happiness keeps you Sweet, Trials keep you Strong, Sorrows keep you Human, Failures keep you Humble, Success keeps you Glowing But Only Friends Keep You Going.
~ Unknown
Our dreams inspire us to live life to the fullest, our sorrows guide us in learning & accepting who we are, wisdom is what we achieve from experiencing both.
~ Unknown