The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?” — Euripides 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
“From sunrise to sunset to sunrise, there is a lifetime of joy, sorrow and happiness.” — Sandeep N. Tripathi 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
“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
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
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
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 think the source of our sorrow and the source of our joy are intimately entwined. Our sorrow is that we have… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only… — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
In sorrow, we rise I thirst for the tears that you wept all night so that even in sorrow, we will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow… — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
“That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
So, Anactoria, go you away With what calm carelessness of sorrow! Your gleaming footstep and your grace, When comes another morrow, Much… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To Amma, all are Her children. In Amma's eyes no defect of Her children is serious. But when She is considered as… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“O, the sorrow of us all, to wander the earth in a shell. And looking to the heavens, we lay to rest… — Craig Froman Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
“It's my fault," I said softly. I touched his face, the thick brows, wide mouth, and the sprouting stubble along the clean,long… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles,… — Alexandra Ripley Copy Share Image
All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“Almost worse than the sorrow of missing her was the fact that Mom's death had revealed everything to be meaningless. So much… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“Sadness is the heart withdrawing to seek shelter from the pain.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Stop grieving. Start giving thanks to me. You live to fight on other days. — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
It is our human need - to circle back to the station of our sorrow. — Michael Hainey Copy Share Image
Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
