Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Life can be painful, you often have to search your soul to find the meaning in sorrow, so you can be free… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Somehow the thought she might be next wasn't nearly as terrifying as the realization he was gone.” — Marcha A. Fox Copy Share Image
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Like a thief in the night, The wind blows so light. It wars with my tears, That won't dry for many years. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Perfect joy could not be joy alone but must be a joy that somehow contains our past grief and sadness and longing.” — Amy Alznauer Copy Share Image
What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death?… — Donna Woolfolk Cross Copy Share Image
My God! I thank Thee for the bath of sleep, That wraps in balm my weary heart and brain, And drowns within… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late… — Shigeru Yoshida Copy Share Image
The moment we're born they try to make us cry, and sometimes it seems as though they never stop. Most of us… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
“For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has become too… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Chaol had told himself that he was only following Celaena to make sure she didn’t hurt herself or anyone else, but as… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to… — Jack London Copy Share Image
One thing was absolutely certain—it was a given for Kazuo. Although he might not have particularlyrealized it, or more appropriately, perhaps because… — Koushun Takami Copy Share Image
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The greatest barrier to own own healing is not the pain, sorrow or violence inflicted upon us as children. Our greatest hindrance… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow. (Luke 22:45) — Bible Copy Share Image
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life. — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
I recall with sorrow the demise of 233 party cadres who lost their lives after the special court delivered its verdict on… — J. Jayalalithaa Copy Share Image
I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Smile in my face does not mean I am always happy, Rather means how sorrow fails to depress me;” — Sadashivan Nair Copy Share Image
This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Had you restrained your love, you would be free of sorrow. The greater the love, while one possesses it, the greater the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths. — William Mountford Copy Share Image
“…as if the world was synchronized with her life, it began to rain. It was as if God knew her sorrow and… — Ashley Antoinette Copy Share Image
A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. — Anonymous Copy Share Image