“I am not sorrowful but I am tired Of everything that I ever desired.” — Ernest Dowson Copy Share Image
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness. — Bible Copy Share Image
Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder, that one missing sock after doing laundry, is the smart one. After being unhappy for so long, it finally… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“I sat on one of the sofas, pretending I wasn’t disconcerted by the music, which paused long enough for a new, more… — K.S. Villoso Copy Share Image
This is the difference between depression and sorrow - sorrowful, you are in great trouble because something matters so much; depressed, you… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 'lords of the earth' are those who are doing their Will. It does not necessarily mean people with coronets and automobiles;… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
This question of love begins and ends with the willingness to be welcoming to one's own experience as a loving action towards… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
It's easy to be cynical; harder is remembering that on any given day the person beside you on the subway or taking… — Rob Payne Copy Share Image
To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and… — Mick Fleetwood Copy Share Image
But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die… — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image