Quotes by Sorrow We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton sadness sorrow heart Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton funeral sorrow men Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Edwin Muir sorrow lying thinking A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage. Edward Abbey sorrow mother beautiful It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace. Edwin Hubbel Chapin angel sorrow home It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest. Edwin Hubbel Chapin display mourn sorrow If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life. Edward Gibbon cottages sorrow humanity Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow. Eknath Easwaran guilt sorrow done Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow. Edwin Hubbel Chapin sorrow age blood Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. Edwin Hubbel Chapin sublime sorrow christianity Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher. Eleanora Duse growth sorrow teacher It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break. Eleanor Roosevelt stress sorrow friendship That was the one thing about the rain that likened it to sorrow: You did your best to remain untouched, safe and dry, but if and when you failed, there came a point in which you started seeing the problem less in terms of drops than as an incessant gush, and thereby you decide you might as well get drenched. Elif Safak ifs-and sorrow rain The truly beneficent mind looks upon every child of sorrow as their relation, and entitled to their assistance. Eliza Parsons sorrow mind children A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself. Elisabeth Elliot stakes sorrow heart I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit. Elizabeth Gaskell childhood sorrow age "There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful," Who ne'er said, "God be praised." Elizabeth Barrett Browning sorrow eye school How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today? Elizabeth Gaskell smart party sorrow Earth may embitter, not remove, Elizabeth Barrett Browning sorrow grief heaven We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives. Elizabeth Kim sorrow struggle joy «7891011121314151617»