120 quotes found
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. Corrie ten Boom”
“Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have. It doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, just empties today of its strength.”
“Past tears are present strength.”
“That felt meaningful somehow, like the words on the pages ached for him to know their sorrow.”
“Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.”
“The rich of this world will vanish like smoke, and no memory of their past pleasures will remain. But even in their lifetime they do not enjoy them without bitterness, weariness and fear, for the v...”
“The world we inhabit is one where children feel sorrow long before they have the words to express it.”
“...every woman has some reason to weep and weeping is sweetest when it is for another's sorrow.”
“I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness.”
“Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.”
“A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of its complete egoism....”
“We were talking the other evening about the phrases one uses when trying to comfort someone who is in distress. I told him that in English we sometimes say, 'I've been there.' This was unclear to h...”
“She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save only for the glint of them and he could see her throat move in the ligh...”
“Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corp...”
“I don't think she's ever coming back.”
“The shadow of my sorrow. Let's see, 'tis very true. My griefs lie all within and these external manners of laments are mere shadows to the unseen grief which swells with silence in the tortured sou...”
“I am alone. I am here. No one is watching me. In these hours of silence that I cherish, I talk to myself and reflect. That past, entrenched in time, motionless and infinite, has vanished onto thin ...”
“The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the worlds sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.”
“This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.”
“There was an end to weeping. Mourning, however, ebbed and surged but never ceased flowing.”
