sorrow

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.

The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.

A person tied to the world of sorrows can return to nature for inspiration. Nature provides solace to troubled hearts.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.