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Sorrowful Quotes

Alan Paton quote: "Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible..."
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. Alan Paton
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. Rumi
Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name. Dean Koontz
Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmitted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness. Pearl S. Buck
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sorrow with me, Sorrowful one! Tell me, whose voice proclaims. Things true and sad, Naming by all their old, unhappy names, What drove me mad-- Aeschylus
Peter Ackroyd quote: "sorrow was always the bedfellow of depravity."
sorrow was always the bedfellow of depravity. Peter Ackroyd
Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also have the old standby catchall—the blind belief in fate, the whole "things happening for a reason" drill. Emily Giffin
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up"
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lawrence Durrell quote: "Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass."
Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass. Lawrence Durrell
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "sorrow makes us all children again-destroys all differences of..."
sorrow makes us all children again-destroys all differences of intellect. the wisest know nothing. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living."
Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Paulo Coelho quote: "Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the..."
Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted. Paulo Coelho
Sorrow is knowledge: They who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the tree of knowledge is not that of life. George Byron
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then ...."
Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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