From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.

Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.

Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.

The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes.

Jesus feels my sorrow greater than I, for his love is infinite, and he suffers in an infinite way.

We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

Everyone is in pain.No matter where they come from or what you think of them. Sorrow spares no one

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

Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.

The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.

I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.

The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.

From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.

Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

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

She must express life, death, happiness, sorrow, love and anger, but above all she must have dignity.

Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.

The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.

Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.

Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.

More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.

Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]

Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.

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