Quotes on Sorrow

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

All sorrows are less with bread.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should not have a tenth part of our present sorrows. We feel a thousand deaths in fearing one, but the (the Christian) cured of the disease of fearing.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life

No matter our distress, no matter our sorrow, no matter our mistakes, our infinitely compassionate Heavenly Father desires that we draw near to Him so that He can draw near to us.

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. _x000D_ For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.

All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is.

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for, by the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better.

Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of prayer, attention, remembrance of death, godly sorrow and mourning the body, too, takes its share of holiness, having acquired freedom from evil actions. This is what the Lord meant by saying that someone who cleans the outside of the cup has not cleansed it inside, but clean the inside and the whole cup will be clean

Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.