Best Sorrows Quotations
520 Sorrows quotes by 357 unique authors
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Who was this Man of sorrows, acquainted with grief? Who is the King of glory, this Lord of hosts? He is our Master. He is…
— Thomas S. Monson
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But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of…
— James Weldon Johnson
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Oh, if you only knew what joy, what sweetness awaits a righteous soul in Heaven! You would decide in this mortal life to bear any…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.
— Franz Schubert
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Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter,…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by…
— Dada Vaswani
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I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional…
— Meryl Streep
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I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a…
— Charles Spurgeon
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To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views, new…
— J C Ryle
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I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities…
— Thomas Merton
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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may…
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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I am convinced that when we bring our griefs and sorrows within the story of God's own grief and sorrow, and allow them to be…
— N. T. Wright
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Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
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Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies…
— Raymond Radiguet
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The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning.
— Raymond Radiguet
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We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long…
— Joseph Campbell
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But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for…
— Sophocles
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It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans,…
— Henning Mankell
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But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the…
— Wally Lamb
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I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be…
— Marilynne Robinson
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No doubt, the poetry, overjoyed by swallowing the beverage of passionate thoughts, delights the mind. But she does not realize the sorrows and troubles of…
— Manmohan Acharya
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The past is never completely lost, however extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today…
— Gordon Wright
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In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.
— Michael Bruce
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Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
— William Blake
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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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