Quotes about Sorrow
She was still haunted by the ghost of the cake she had drowned.
— LM Montgomery
I won't go about to argue the point with you,—'tis so,—and I am persuaded of it, madam, as much as can be, That both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.
— Laurence Sterne
I am pursuaded of it, madam, as much as can be, That both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.
— Laurence Sterne
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
— Martin Luther
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
— John Milton
We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.
— Charles Spurgeon
Tears of joy are lighter than smiles of sorrow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
They bear their sorrow in the strength of him who bears them up, who bore the whole suffering of the world upon the cross.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.
— Dolly Parton
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.
— JI Packer
While it is certainly true that God's love for us does not protect us from pain and sorrow, it is also true that all occasions of pain and sorrow are under the absolute control of God. If God controls the circumstances of the sparrow, how much more does He control the circumstances that affect us? God does not walk away and leave us to the mercy of uncontrolled random or chance events.
— Jerry Bridges