I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow.
Nature is a catchment of sorrows.
The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes.
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them, I spoiled everything; on the contrary, when I praised them for their resignation and sympathized with them in their sufferings; when I told them they were fortunate to have their purgatory in this world, when I kissed their chains, showed compassion for their distress, and expressed sorrow for their misfortune, it was then that they listened to me, gave glory to God, and opened themselves to salvation.
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes.
Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains,. . . content to eat the bread of sorrow and drink the waters of affliction.
Acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh pervails completely over the spirit. You don't just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don't care, and you don't care that you don't care.
Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.
You don't really care about the trials of tomorrow, rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow
There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.
Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.
In the many trials of life, when we feel abandoned and when sorrow, sin, disappointment, failure, and weakness make us less than we should ever be, there can come the healing salve of the unreserved love in the grace of God. It is a love that lifts and blesses. It is a love that sustains a new beginning on a higher level and thereby continues "from grace to grace. "
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy.
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.