Quotes by Sorrow I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. Erich Maria Remarque silence sorrow years . . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. Erik Larson sorrow impossible men If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened. Epictetus sorrow wish thinking No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude. Epictetus anxiety states sorrow Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things. Ernest Renan sorrow remember life Sorrow eats your heart and courage. Ernst Moritz Arndt eat-your-heart sorrow heart If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance. Erwin W. Lutzer lords-supper live-for-today sorrow I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues. Etty Hillesum broads sorrow share Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows. Euripides sorrow wise joy Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow. Euripides rich wine sorrow I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow. Fanny Burney sorrow sleep joy There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting. Felix Dennis fleeting form sorrow You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you. Euripides fate stranger sorrow There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make. Ernest Hemingway progress sorrow writing I sorrow that all fair things must decay. Fitz-Greene Halleck fairs decay sorrow Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the world-sirens that lure us to ill Frances Sargent Osgood sirens sorrow world With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure Frances Sargent Osgood fidelity strength sorrow Stories are like genies...They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like genies, everyone has one. Like genies, sometimes we forget that we do. Our stories can set us free...When we set them free. Francesca Lia Block sorrow stories sometimes Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows, wisdom is the art of finding compensation. Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis inevitable sorrow art You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright. Francesca Lia Block torches sorrow laughing «910111213141516171819»