Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.
Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.
May it make your sorrow Easier for you to bear Knowing there are others Who understand and care.
Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.
Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.
Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. [What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]
The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with comfort. Strange is it that where misery was concentrated mercy reigned; where sorrow reached her climax weary souls find rest.
He feels all our sorrows, needs, and burdens as his own. That is why it is said that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.
The more heart, the more sorrow.
A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.
Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.
Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.
Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.
Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.
It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.
