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Quotes About Sorrows

Of all ill, Self-chosen sorrows are the worst to bear.
~ Sophocles
Life is too short.But there are alot of sorrows,
~ Sher E Yazdan
A thousand sorrows prepares a man to preach.
~ John Piper
Her eyes were too knowing and serene; the expression on her face hinted that she had tasted deeply of the sorrows and joys of this world.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Her eyes were too knowing and serene; the expression on her face hinted that she had tasted deeply of the sorrows and joys of this world. The air around her seemed somehow charged.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Our sorrows are the golden grain Of the great reaper--Art.
~ barker elsa iv
The burdens of life I'll take up now, But never my heart will they stain. If sorrows of earth fit me for heaven, No reason have I to complain.
~ barton ardelia cotton ii
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. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the doors she may not enter. Almost we linger with Sorrow for very love.
~ George MacDonald
Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.
~ George Orwell
I don't know why, but any thought of the future upsets me intolerably. So I had to turn and look back at certain aspects of the past, and only then did I recover my calm. I thought of our friendship and was overcome by guilt at having allowed so much bitterness to invade my wretched heart. I recalled the joys and sorrows we had shared. Both are so dear to me that I began to sob like a woman when I remembered them.
~ George Sand
This is the hardest trial of my life," he confessed to the nurse, and in a spirit of rebellion this man, overweighted with care and sorrows, cried out: "Why is it? Why is it?
~ George Saunders
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
~ Gertrude Stein
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
~ Joseph Campbell
Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.
~ Mark Twain
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Our sorrows will never be sad enough. Our joys never happy enough. Our dreams never big enough. Our lives never important enough. To matter.
~ Arundhati Roy
Sorrows bring us closer to God than joys.
~ beecher henry ward viii
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
~ beecher henry ward xii
Now we both know sorrows are the seeds of loving. Now we both know I will live and I will die for this love.
~ Gregory David Roberts
And the brightest of those stars are the heartbreaks and sorrows. The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering. So I took each sadness she confessed to me, and pinned it to the sky.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
~ Charles Spurgeon
We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?
~ Sharon Kay Penman