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Sorrow Quotes by George Eliot
- Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then…
- There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river…
- There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
- Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not…
- Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
- There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known…
- Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and…
- There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.…
- Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
- Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of…
- That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.
More Sorrow Quotes
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. — Honore de Balzac
- It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. — Amelia Barr
- There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it. — Amelia Barr
- Genius is sorrow's child. — John Adams
- I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That… — Kathleen Battle
- Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown… — Joseph Addison
- I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. — Joseph Addison
- In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of… — Dirk Benedict
- The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. — A. C. Benson
- Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our… — Ezra Taft Benson