Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.

In heaven we will sing free of all the shame, sickness and sorrow that we encounter in the here and now.

Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself.

When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.

We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.

Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow.

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.

No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine And made no deeper wounds?

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

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.

I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.

As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear.

In everybody's life, there is love, there is sorrow, there is melancholy. And there might be danger as well.

"All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

What I loved with Billie Holiday is she had a good way of parlaying the sorrow with a positive musical twist.

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

In the West we are constantly hit with music of Middle Eastern descent signifying terror, intrigue or sorrow.

. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.

The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart.

One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect

Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust.

The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

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