Quotes about Sorrow
When Heaven has taken from us some object of our love, how sweet is it to have a bosom whereon to recline our heads, and into which we may pour the torrent of our tears! Grief, with such a comfort, is almost a luxury!
- Thomas Jefferson
Men pass from evil to good, from self to Truth, through the dark gate of sorrow, for sorrow and self are inseparable.
- James Allen
There is no physician like cheerful thought for dissipating the ills of the body; there is no comforter to compare with goodwill for dispersing the shadows of grief and sorrow.
- James Allen
suffering is of self. All suffering ends in Truth. When you have entered into and realized Truth, you will no longer suffer disappointment, remorse, and regret, and sorrow will flee from you.
- James Allen
Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
One learns wisdom from sorrow, but pleasure is one of the fruits of wisdom.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A wise man's sorrow is better than a fool's happiness.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Sorrow makes men sincere.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.
- CS Lewis
His tears reached deep inside and tore great chunks from what was left of his heart.
- Terri Blackstock
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
- Theodore Roosevelt