Quotes about Sorrow
Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
— CS Lewis
Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.
— Dorothy Day
There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.
— Charles Spurgeon
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Life is a sea of sorrow in the midst of islands of happiness.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.
— Marianne Williamson
Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it does not put an end to it.
— John Calvin
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.
— Mark Twain
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
— Charles Dickens
Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?
— Khalil Gibran
Depersonalized Personalized Sin Breaking a rule Betraying a relationship Repentance Admitting guilt Sorrowing over personal betrayal Forgiveness Canceling a penalty Renewing fellowship Faith Believing a set of propositions Committing oneself to a person Christian life Obeying rules Pleasing the Lord.
— James Sire
He pulled the sash down and turned back. Catch my death! he echoed; and he felt like adding: But I've caught it already. I am dead--I've been dead for months and months.
— Edith Wharton