141 Sorrow Quotes for You to Enjoy

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christie

Sometimes Miserable Wildly Alive Through Know Sorrow Still Been Quite Just Grand Certainly Thing

Genius is sorrow's child. John Adams

Genius Sorrow Child

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy. Joni Mitchell

Joy Sing Sorrow Paint

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust. Mary Wollstonecraft

Me Joy Impossible Dust Active Alive Restless Spirit Only Sorrow Equally Exist Cease Cease To Exist Should Organized Appears

Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation. Robert Schumann

God Best Nature Joy Tears Speechless Our Alike Gifts Given Vast Weeping Almighty Name Like Ecstasy She Sorrow Dry How Reverence Pray Handkerchief Quiet Hearts May Which Eternal Us Turns Teaches Fills Resignation

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life. Tara Brach

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for? Ai Weiwei

Art People Nothing Pain Sorrow

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy. Dan Colen

Joy Out Sorrow Celebrating Double-Edged Much Mechanisms

In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity. David A. Bednar

Happiness Love Kindness Disappointment Challenges Experience School Pain Ways Physical Tenderness Mortality Sorrow Limitations Eternity Us Even Prepare

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. Eudora Welty

Sad You Joy Looking Excursion Sorrow Go Same Your

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love. Franz Schubert

Love Me Wished Sing Sorrow Transformed To Love Turned

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow. Jan Karon

World Power Nothing Everything About Trite Deliver Sorrow Does Being

I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you miss them - the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible. Joe Rogan

Love Alone You Humanity People Losing Will Thought Inevitable Think Horrible Someone Miss Miss You Towards Look Sorrow Truly End Forever Die Afraid Them Reasons Why

For better and for worse, I feel like sorrow and grief are really transformative personal experiences for me, and I question what I would be had I decided to take a different path and not embrace that kind of pain. Karyn Kusama

Me Grief Better Path Pain Worse Kind Would Would-Be Embrace Take Had Feel Like Sorrow Question Personal Personal Experiences Different Experiences Decided Transformative Really Different Path

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain. Terry Bradshaw

Life Funny You People Hide Humor Mask Idiot Pain Too Other Side Out Find See Give Never Like Sorrow Behind Being Being Funny Them Then Much Really Show

Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day. Thalia

Work Today Day Strength Great Courage Every Day Mother Goals Values Girl Past Pain Warrior Every Would Since Obtain Sorrow Learned Witnessed Pillars Left In The Past Little Little Girl Who Whom Fundamental Her

A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands. Tomas Transtromer

Life Joy Water Sister Our Sun Horizon Following Both Magnifying Divine Glass Knowing Sorrow Another Dew Without Islands Ship Quietly Behind While Far Far Away Really Engine Swell Away Route

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. William Blake

Joy Sympathy Laughs Excessive Sorrow

Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives. Adam Hochschild

Today Lie Will Men Seen Politicians Sense Doubt Needless Others France Spendthrift Those No Doubt Someday Folly Similar Generals Tens Tens Of Millions Feel Dead Sorrow Were Loss American Revulsion Cemeteries Who Wars Belgium Lives Millions

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. Alexandre Vinet

Courage Christian Sorrow Resignation

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