All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck! — Euripides Copy Share Image
Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.” — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I have no heart, I feel no love. Nor fear, nor joy, nor sorrow. I am hollow! And I will live¦ forever. — KM II Copy Share Image
“Him I delight in accepts joy as joy; He is richened by sorrow as a river by its bends” — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you… — William Blake Copy Share Image
All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
This old heart of mine won't let you break it, not again. I've been hurt so many times and I can't take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“I understand why sin eaters were made. Carrying such feelings is too much for one little heart, too much for one body.… — Megan Campisi Copy Share Image
So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more… — Sogyal Rinpoche 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
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
Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
We must have faith during the period of our grief. We think that our afflictions will be greater than we can bear,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear,… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Always – but especially when suffering - surround yourself with those who inspire you to lose yourself more honestly, to love others… — Connie Kerbs Copy Share Image
When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction. — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib Copy Share Image
This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto. — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness,… — John Gray Copy Share Image
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I would say my mind is always working - no matter where I am I continue to see opportunities all around me.… — Arlene Dickinson Copy Share Image
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
One day u will cry and feel sorry u hurt me but that day I wont be here to forgive u…!!!! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up. — Ivo Andric Copy Share Image
![“So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we assume we must grasp in order to have that something that will ensure our happiness. [...] Learning to live is learning to let go.” quote by Sogyal Rinpoche](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f48/sogyal-rinpoche-2963_assuming_so-often-we-want-happiness-but-the-very_1124922.jpg)
