Sorrowful Quotes

78 Sorrowful quotes by 64 unique authors

To the artist He is the one altogether lovely, and to the educator He is the master teacher. To the philosopher He is the wisdom… — John Gerstner
True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute, it serves those… — Menno Simons
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was… — Hermann Hesse
No sin is necessarily connected with sorrow of heart, for Jesus Christ our Lord once said, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death." There… — Charles Spurgeon
Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality. — Jack Kerouac
When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being… — Dana Reeve
For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness of grace and… — Pope Paul VI
Happiness is a smile of comfort to the sorrowful. — Goswami Kriyananda
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell… — Umberto Eco
What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders… — Oliver Goldsmith
The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is… — Khalil Gibran
Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river… — Henry David Thoreau
A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a… — Walter de La Mare
He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep. — Selma LagerlÃ¶f
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny. — Franz Liszt
Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What… — Henri Nouwen
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics.… — William Winwood Reade
I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to become… — Virginia Heffernan
Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great… — Sean O'Casey
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful. — Horace
I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices. — Franz Liszt
But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his eye. There was a faint… — T.H. White
Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must… — Hjalmar Schacht
Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡

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