It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.
There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.
If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.
Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.
A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.
Courage! even sorrows, when once they are vanished, quicken the soul, as rain the valley.
My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives.
Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the world-sirens that lure us to ill
I think the novel is essentially a comic form (tragedy is for the theatre), not meaning by that full of jokes, but that it is about the absurd detail of human life, the way in which one cannot fully understand what is happening. Life is muddle and jumble and ends inconclusively, and when this is presented with great comic art the sorrows of human life can be truthfully conveyed; one is moved by the spectacle, and feels that something truthful has been told in a magic way.
. . . the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought. . and so shall you come to bear them the more easily grateful that they are not worse.
Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
The joys of love. . . last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.