When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
My father's passing comes with sorrow and grief for me, for my mother, for my brothers, and for my sisters. He was… — Meghan McCain Copy Share Image
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The day you went away, my world slipped away, as if I were to roam the sky with a thousand butterflies, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A long while yet will you keep that great mother's grief. But it will turn in the end into quiet joy, and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
There's so much I wish for these days, but most of all, I wish you were here. It's strange, but before I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it. When you… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
A friend of mine said to me not long ago, "Terry you are married to sorrow." I looked at him and said,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Largely, now, it was not anger he felt, but rather a kind of bone-scraping, quiet, ever-present sorrow. To come to the place… — Elizabeth Graver Copy Share Image
“I wish I could write their individual stories in the book of our lives with indelible ink, because we cannot compel the… — Hemley Boum Copy Share Image
“The first sorrow of autumn is the slow good-bye of the garden that stands so long in the evening—a brown poppy head,… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
Oh God, God, please come to me, please illumine me, please act in me and through me. I don't know what's right… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
No sin is necessarily connected with sorrow of heart, for Jesus Christ our Lord once said, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Our dreams have been doctored.We belong no where. We sail unanchored on troubled seas.We may never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It is dark. It is dreadful. It is a… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. Discarding what is vain or false, facing the facts that should truly disturb your conscience, is… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief?… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to cry so bad but I know that if I let myself embrace this pain and sadness I'll be… — NICOLE HILL Copy Share Image
I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The tiniest thing, it can be the source of all your pain, hate, fear. The tiniest look can kill you. The smallest… — Naquitta Copy Share Image
But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life.… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“The Tiste Edur studied the bonecaster for a long moment, as the tears ran down his gaunt cheeks. 'I weep, Monok Ochem,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For when we quaff the gen'rous bowl, Then sleep the sorrows of our soul. Let us drink the juice divine, The gift… — Anacreon Copy Share Image
O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep; Thou bearest angels to us in the night, Saints out of heaven with palms.… — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
“How can you make light of it? I says. What should I do? She says. Cry fer the rest of my life?… — Moira Young Copy Share Image
I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
