Quotes about Sorrow
How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
— Ann Voskamp
The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart.
— Frederick Douglass
Welcome, welcome joy, welcome sorrow, welcome pleasure, welcome pain. You are all the ingredients of life -- and with you all, life is an inestimable blessing.
— Frederick Douglass
The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
— Frederick Douglass
The very word mercy is derived from the Latin miserum cor, a sorrowful heart. Mercy is, therefore, a compassionate understanding of another's unhappiness.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
A person is merciful when he feels the sorrow and misery of another as if it were his own.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Every sorrow is really the "Shade of His Hand outstretched caressingly."
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
There is no door through which tears do not pass.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
In His own case, now as always, the most sorrowful moods pass into the most blissful; there is never the Cross without the Resurrection; the 'Hour' in which evil has mastery passes quickly into the 'Day' where God is Victor.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.
— Margaret Atwood
I will bend, I will touch the ground, or as close to it as I can get without rupture. I will lay a wreath of invisible money on her grave.
— Margaret Atwood
You can see it in her eyes: I am not there. But she exists, in her white dress. She grows and lives. Isn't that a good thing? A blessing? Still, I can't bear it, to have been erased like that.
— Margaret Atwood