1,508 Quotes About Sorrow



  • Author Jan Karon
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    There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

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  • Author Thomas à Kempis
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    It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.

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  • Author C. S. Lewis
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    If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.

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  • Author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.

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  • Author Amin Maalouf
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    Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.

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