Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Bread of the world, in mercy broken, Wine of the soul, in mercy shed, By whom the words of life were spoken,… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Christ is with you. Do not abandon Him and He will not abandon you. You will see great sorrow, and in that… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I whisper over to myself the way of loss, the names of the dead. One by one, we lose our loved ones,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Sorrow has its life just like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left… — Anne Holm Copy Share Image
Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance,… — Seth Copy Share Image
Being a Christ follower means being acquainted with sorrow. We must know sorrow to be able to fully appreciate joy. Joy costs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I'm more of a freedom fighter than I am a Christian. I serve Jesus Christ. How I believe is that God's promises… — Sam Childers Copy Share Image
In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. — Edward Moore Copy Share Image
How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think my mother… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
Later, going home, I realized they didn't look alike at all; what made them seem to was the aftermath of stress and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
“[...] zoals zij in de bus op weg naar Wierenbeke achter de chauffeur had gezeten met al het verdriet van Belgie in… — Hugo Claus Copy Share Image
My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Can you forgive me, I know it might sound crazy, But who knew love could be so draining, Tired of opening up,… — Letoya Luckett Copy Share Image
What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I've got life, I've got love, I've got faith & that's enough. We feel sorrow we feel pain, but there's sunshine after rain. — Jake Miller Copy Share Image
Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't let yourself forget that God's grace rewards not only those who never slip, but also those who bend and fall. So… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Here dwells a snake, one thousand miles long Coiled, one thousand miles deep Eyes like candy, it has eyes like candy Hard… — James O'Barr Copy Share Image
Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Libertarians are learning to their sorrow that big businessmen cannot necessarily be relied upon to be their allies in the battle against… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image