Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. When love is our whole life, what difference is there between living together and dying together ?
The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.
There was a lot of sorrow in [Johnny] Cash's life. Even while he's trying to make music to inspire people he's fighting day after day with his own demons and sorrows.
Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.
Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life
Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. . . . With this method. . . rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.
We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies, and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.
The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill the duties of everyday with exactitude and to study and work with all our strength.
A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.
Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows Follow sweet children I'll show thee the way through all the pain and the Sorrows Weep not poor childlen for life is this way murdering beauty and Passions Hush now dear children it must be this way to weary of life and Deceptions Rest now my children for soon we'll away into the calm and the Quiet Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows
Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself is a gift from God. It is the symbol of His compassion.