Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.” — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“For sorrow to which one gives voice is worth nothing if it does not touch the heart.” — Chrétien de Troyes Copy Share Image
National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering. — Park Geun-hye Copy Share Image
Keep some sorrow in your hearts and minds, for the things that die before their time. — Counting Crows Copy Share Image
There is some joy in weeping. For our tears Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away. — Ovid Copy Share Image
We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“the sorrow she carried around that made her smile come a second too late and made her ears grow dull so that… — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
“Everything I touch dies in my hand and the same thing's happening to you. You were vibrant when I met you, and… — H.M. Ward Copy Share Image
Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Weeping is the emotion of middle age. Once you get to your forties, no joy fails to remind you of its opposite,… — Scott Huler Copy Share Image
“Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic… — Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy Copy Share Image
God Himself heals the proud. This means that inner sorrows (by which pride is healed) are sent to us by God, for… — Ambrose of Optina Copy Share Image
So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Everything ends, and Everything matters. Everything matters not in spite of the end of you and all that you love, but because… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Does this mean we will always understand our challenges? Won't all of us, sometime, have reason to ask, 'O God, where art… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
“And yet and yet! That strained look on her face! A gnawing sorrow is there all the time. Her very soul is… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“ My dad died, I write. almost a year ago. Car accident. My hand is shaking; my eyes sting and fill. I… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“The word for teardrinkers is lachryphagous, and for the eaters of human flesh it is anthropophagous, and the rest of us feed… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“So I shall practice sorrow in my love, stand in thin sun from old windows and grieve: inevitability of the grave, monotony… — Grace Butcher Copy Share Image
“I have felt the highest of Joys and I have felt the true pit of sorrow – all in just thirteen hours.” — C. David Murphy Copy Share Image
We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm. — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“She feels a great pang of loss, an unexpected welling of sorrow mixed with confusion.” — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.” — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy. — Thalia Copy Share Image
Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“I know now that the most genuine happiness is kept afloat by an underlying sorrow.” — Seré Prince Halverson Copy Share Image
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . .… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happiness and sorrow, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“But I guess oil was to be found in every part of the world, just like anger and sorrow.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
