Quotes about Sorrow
Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
- JRR Tolkien
The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.
- John Owen
[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.
- Teresa of Avila
Accursed be he who willingly saddens an immortal spirit---doomed to infamy in later, wiser ages, doomed in future stages of his own being to deadly penance, only short of death.
- Margaret Fuller
Two in distressmake sorrow less.
- Samuel Beckett
Friendship multiplies joy and divides sorrow.
- Nicky Gumbel
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace.
- AW Tozer
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace.
- AW Tozer
The Christian should always think: 'If peace and tranquility reign today, it will be different tomorrow. The devil can shoot a dart into my heart, or some other affliction can befall me. Therefore I must see to it that when sorrows appear, I am prepared to weather the storm and draw comfort from God's Word.
- Martin Luther
So if you wish to rejoice in Christ, for His sake you must bear sorrow, confusion, inward and outward vexations. The reason is that you cannot hold to Christ without offending the prince of the world. You cannot hold fast to the God of life without rousing against yourself the author of death.
- Martin Luther
The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again
- Alfred Lord Tennyson