Sorrow quotations

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◆ What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?

- George Eliot99

◆ No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

- Orson F. Whitney99

◆ Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

- J.R.R. Tolkien99

◆ Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

- Khalil Gibran99

◆ Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.

- P.G. Wodehouse99

◆ Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.

- Henry James99

◆ Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

- Victor Hugo99

◆ Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

- Orhan Pamuk99

◆ It's not that we have to quit this life one day, it's how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smiling, anthills, the color of the sky, coffee and cashmere, literature, sparks and subway trains... If only one could leave this life slowly!

- Roman Payne99

◆ In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

- Alexandre Dumas99

◆ How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.

- Margaret Atwood99

◆ In the weakness I find my strength, in the sorrow I find my joy, and when it all seems wrong, all I have to do is stay strong.

- Blaze Olamiday99

◆ No farewell words were spoken, no time to say goodbye, you were gone before we knew it, and only God knows why.

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