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Is your face a beautiful blossom
or a sweet torture?
I have no complaints
but my heart is tempted
to let you
hear of its sorrows. — Rumi
or a sweet torture?
I have no complaints
but my heart is tempted
to let you
hear of its sorrows. — Rumi
Ideas are substitutes for sorrows...
— Marcel Proust
Return to the world still more brilliant because of your former sorrows.
— Alexandre Dumas
It is the mark of a true saint that his sorrows remind him of his sins, and his sorrow for sin drives him to his God.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The blood that ran down from the cross in redemption for all sins and penance for all sorrows - that was the visible sign.
— Sigrid Undset
If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.
— Nhat Hanh
Alcohol units: 5. Drowning sorrows. Cigarettes: 23. Fumigating sorrows. Calories: 3,856. Smothering sorrows in fat duvet.
— Helen Fielding
Holy men tell us life is a mystery.
They embrace that concept happily.
But some mysteries bite and bark
and come to get you in the dark. — Dean Koontz
They embrace that concept happily.
But some mysteries bite and bark
and come to get you in the dark. — Dean Koontz
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
— Alfred De Musset
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.
— Louis Sullivan
Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.
— Roger Scruton
He feels all our sorrows, needs, and burdens as his own. That is why it is said that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.
— John Flavel
I wonder if He anticipates the day when He can make us understand what was occurring in our time of trial. I wonder if He broods over our sorrows.
— James C. Dobson
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
— Charles Spurgeon
Life kisses our faces every morning. Yet, between morning and evening, she laughs at our sorrows.
— Kahlil Gibran
All sorrows are less with bread.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay. - China Sorrows -
— Derek Landy
Life has its own chapters and no chapter stays for ever. Move on and enjoy the wonders and face the sorrows of upcoming chapters.
— Vishnu Kanchan
I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.
— Oscar Wilde
If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Some seek
solace in
whiskey,
I drown my
sorrows
in ink. — Noor Shirazie
solace in
whiskey,
I drown my
sorrows
in ink. — Noor Shirazie
Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.
— L.M. Montgomery
We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.
— Chris Womersley
Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Gus was looking at him for confirmation of all his sorrows.
— Jack Kerouac
I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect
— Shelagh Delaney
The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.
— Rosellen Brown
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
— Hippocrates
All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.
— Callimachus
He drowned his sorrows, though like other drowned things they had a habit of floating to the surface when least expected.
— Margaret Atwood
But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.
— Gautama Buddha
My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.
— Franz Schubert
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
— Henry Ward Beecher
In my experience, people's sorrows are always in danger of bursting out; it's only through careful inattention that they can be contained.
— Suzanne Berne
I was trying to drown my sorrows," I explained, looking down into the bottom of my glass, "but my sorrows learned to swim.
— Eliza Lentzski
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.
— Sadegh Hedayat
She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.
— Dean Koontz
I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.
— Nadine Gordimer
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
— Subhash Kak
When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.
— Gary Player
The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows.
But stories all ... — William Joyce
But stories all ... — William Joyce
Our memory of joys and sorrows is always imperfect, and they become a matter of indifference to us as soon as they are over.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
God is bigger than our pain and sorrows. He's bigger than our guilt. He is able to take anything we give Him and turn it around for good.
— Tracie Peterson
I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows.
— Ella Leya
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
— William Shakespeare
May your heart be mine, may my heart be yours. May your sorrows be mine, may my joys be yours.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I wish I could've done more for her, but some sorrows were simply too individual to share.
— Edwidge Danticat
I'll go to Venice and drown my sorrows.
— Maureen Johnson
So you , too , must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person
— Paulo Coelho
When the sunshine of God's love meets the shadows of our sorrows, the rainbow of promise appears.
— Ryan Jo Summers
Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.
— Hermann Hesse
Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who d trusts in the LORD.
— Anonymous
In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.
— William Rounseville Alger
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
— Stefan Kanfer
Seas wept from our deep sorrows.
— John Milton
The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.
— Nan Fairbrother
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
— William Mountford
No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.
— Samuel Johnson
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
— Honore De Balzac
O God, take all our sorrows and use them to show us the nature of our joy.
— Leslie Weatherhead
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
— William Shakespeare
I write to shed my tears.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.
— William Blake
Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.
— William George Jordan
Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows.
— Abhijit Naskar
Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.
— Oscar Wilde
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
— Bernard Malamud
We are made exactly as God wants us to be. We only need to lift our minds above Earth's empty sorrows so that we can rejoice in the Divine joy.
— Julian Of Norwich
A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
— William Wordsworth
Life is fleeting;
your joys make it seem even shorter,
but your sorrows make it seem too long. — Matshona Dhliwayo
your joys make it seem even shorter,
but your sorrows make it seem too long. — Matshona Dhliwayo
When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.
— Chanakya
It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.
— Charles Henry Mackintosh
Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows.
— Jeremias Gotthelf
If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.
— Gautama Buddha
Sorrows is more plentiful than dinners just now; I
— Elizabeth Gaskell