Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.

All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; Every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.

Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.

Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.

There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher.

The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

I hate her." Merlin laughed, tossing the stick down. "Not so. You have forgotten how to love. That's a different sorrow.

I do know that there is no reason for me to drown myself from sorrow since I haven't yet tried to achieve anything great.

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully.

Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!

Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.

So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. But they are creul tears. This sorrow's heavenly; it strikes where it doth love.

He that seeks here any other thing but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.

There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.

You transform all who are touched by you. Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.

Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.

When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim am II am this body, a playOf five elements a dramaOf the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.

From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.

Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply deliver Sorrow.

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.

And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.

Death cut the strings that gave me life, And handed me to Sorrow, The only kind of middle wife My folks could beg or borrow.

It is Christlike work to soothe and sympathize, and only those who have drunk the cup of sorrow are fully equipped to do it.

Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.

There is no sorrow under heaven which is, or ought to be, endless. To believe or to make it so, is an insult to Heaven itself.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows

Forget your troubles and dance! Forget your sorrows and dance! Forget your sickness and dance! Forget your weakness and dance!

We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.

No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found.

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