Pain And Sorrow Quotes

Pain And Sorrow Quotes by Rumi, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Heinrich Heine, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thalia, Joseph Campbell and many others.

Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better thin

Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.
Rumi
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
When’er into thine eyes I see,
All pain and sorrow fly from me.
[Ger., Wenn ich in deine Augen sch’
So schwindet all’ mein Leid und Weh.]
Heinrich Heine
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ive always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.
Thalia
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph Campbell
God can use a sensitive Christian to be a rich blessing in the life of one who knows pain and sorrow.
Billy Graham
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.
Sadegh Hedayat
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.
Orson F. Whitney
If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you’ll see the sun come shining through for you.
Nat King Cole
Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
Timothy Keller
Think of everything you’ve ever experienced that was painful; that’s the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that’s the meaning of Easter.
Marianne Williamson
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Haruki Murakami
There’s a sorrow and pain in everyone’s life, but every now and then there’s a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.
Hubert Selby, Jr.
A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I said: what about my eyes?
God said: Keep them on the road.
I said: what about my passion?
God said: Keep it burning.
I said: what about my heart?
God said: Tell me what you hold inside it?
I said: pain and sorrow?
He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Rumi
If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?
Ai Weiwei