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Quotes about Sorrow

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
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
- Washington Irving
As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).
- Richard Baxter
Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hope, love, are not so certainly to be tried by the passion that is in them, as by the will that is either contained in them, or supposed in them; not as acts of the sensitive, but of the rational appetite (358).
- Richard Baxter