The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
“No true artist is possible without sorrow and suffering and renunciation.” — Jessie Fothergill Copy Share Image
The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one. — Saadi Copy Share Image
The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Akhenaton A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the… — SangFroid Stalker Copy Share Image
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Whatever you find, you also find the fear that you may lose it. Whatever you fall in love with fills you with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Can you visualize a world with no more death, no more pain, no more hunger, no more fear, no more sorrow, no… — David Berg Copy Share Image
We can bear the heavy load without asking to have it lightened. We can keep the sorrow now and endure it. We… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
“When I say a clever thing to people they look startled and uncomfortable. I should just like to be quiet for years… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears,… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Our greatest hope is for the experience of joy, and often we are not as smart as we think we are when… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“As long as there is one person suffering an injustice; as long as one person is forced to bear an unnecessary sorrow;… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
Some imaginations help to break the bondage of the rest. The whole universe is imagination, but one set of imaginations will cure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or,… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
Sometimes we ask ourselves 'Why?' Why do I continue to smile, to give, to live? Why do I continue to stand, despite… — Shane Smith Copy Share Image
Faced with the immensity of the universe, Job realized that there are limits to man's rationalizing, that we cannot find where the… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
“Axsem would say nothing more to any of them. No sooner had Fallon released him than he fled deep into the trees,… — S.R. Ford Copy Share Image
“Joy was not the raw material of humor . . . The dark source was sorrow.” — Sid Fleischman Copy Share Image
“...for a novel need not be full of sorrow just because its heroes are suffering.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image