Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there. — Giovanni Giocondo Copy Share Image
“The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.” — Dante Copy Share Image
Your heart will be shattered by sorrow If you force it to live In tomorrow's ephemeral imagination-world Instead of in today's eternal… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust. — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“They weren't penitent over what they'd attempted; their sorrow reached to the limits of their bodies and no further, all their anguish… — Ron Hansen Copy Share Image
Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
What a pleasure to have children in Heaven and to watch them grow and develop without the Devil and all his imps… — David Berg Copy Share Image
When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
No one can ever prepare a parent for two things: the immeasurable love that comes with having a child; and the sorrow… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Prayer, it seems, disposes us to new friendship, in that it more and more lays us open to experience from any source,… — Emilie Griffin Copy Share Image
The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
All my dreams have Withered and died. For this is the truth I can no longer hide. I was left with nothing… — Curly Girl Copy Share Image
“On the seventh day of the Seventh-month, in the Palace of Long Life, We told each other secretly in the quiet midnight… — Bai Juyi Copy Share Image
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Was it not most meet that a woman should first see the risen Saviour? She was first in the transgression; let her… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Unwearied, and with springing steps elate, I had conveyed my wealth along the road. The empty sack proved now a heavier load:… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The woods are never solitary — they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Nothing came in reasonable measure, it seemed, not water or sunshine or sorrow. But joy, too, is immoderate sometimes, and that makes… — Jetta Carleton Copy Share Image
Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“what Tibetan Buddhists call “the inability to bear the sight of another’s sorrow,” so that we feel it almost as intensely as… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. — A.J. Cronin Copy Share Image
“From sunrise to sunset to sunrise, there is a lifetime of joy, sorrow and happiness.” — Sandeep N. Tripathi Copy Share Image
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
“My particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image