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Sorrow Quotes by Marcel Proust
- We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our…
- There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person…
- There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving…
- The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when our sensibility, which…
- At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop…
- Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was…
- It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to…
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