But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?
How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful!
Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God. . . . Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater. " But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.
My ma used to say that crying is good for you. Tears are the path that free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.
Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.
But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.
It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.
Happiness is a smile of comfort to the sorrowful.
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
No sin is necessarily connected with sorrow of heart, for Jesus Christ our Lord once said, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. " There was no sin in Him, and consequently none in His deep depression.
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.
A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of beliefs and hopes, in God, in Truth, in Love, and in Eternity - an ability to be transported by the beauty of physical objects - a heart to ache or swell- a joy so hoyful and a sorrow so sorrowful that oceans could lie between them.
I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.
A shattered illusion is a sorrowful experience; but a life without illusion is a sorrowful life
