Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.
Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.
God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.
Where I would like to discover facts, I find fancy. Where I would like to learn what I did, I learn only what I was thinking. Theyare loaded with opinion, moral thoughts, quick evaluations, youthful hopes and cares and sorrows. Occasionally, they manage to report something in exquisite honesty and accuracy. That is why I have refrained from burning them.
I love the friendly faces of old sorrows; I have no secrets that they do not know.
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
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.
Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
It is necessary for me to express the deep sorrow that I feel for all the Cuban people both inside and outside of Cuba that have suffered the atrocities and repression caused by Fidel Castro and his totalitarian regime.
Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.
To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth all the years of sorrow that are to come.
Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss. . . . then wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.
Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you.
To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.
It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow. . . that are the aftermath of war.
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.