Best sorrow & bitter Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of human griefs I counsel thee, Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss: Thou has gained, in the furnace of affliction, self-knowledge, patience and humility, And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner: Despise not the blessings of adversity, nor the gain thou hast earned so hardly, And now thou hast drained the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet.”

Source: Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus

“As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.”

Ifs Should Sorrow Fairs Bitter Strokes Remembrance Felicity

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.”

Ifs Doe Enough Joy Acceptance Sorrow Roots Fruit Endure Accepted Bitter Endurance Destroying Harsh Alchemy Gloomy Poisonous

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.”

Heart Evil Music Enemy Sorrow Music Is Weight Bitter Satan Glorious Remove Fascination Gift From God Evil Thoughts

Author:Martin Luther

“You'd be surprised to know how many heartaches, how many bitter disappointments, how many disasters that seem final when they come, we learn to survive and in time even to forget.”

Knows Seems Forget Know How Sorrow Finals Disappointment Disaster Bitter Heartache Bitter Disappointment

Author:Emilie Loring

“Was it not most meet that a woman should first see the risen Saviour? She was first in the transgression; let her be first in the justification. In yon garden she was first to work our wo; let her in that other garden be the first to see Him who works our weal. She takes first the apple of that bitter tree which brings us all our sorrow; let her be the first to see the Mighty Gardener, who has planted a tree which brings forth fruit unto everlasting life.”

Should Firsts Tree Sorrow Garden Fruit Bitter Apples Justification Easter Everlasting Gardener Saviour Risen Transgression Everlasting Life

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Let us candidly confess our indebtedness to the needle. How many hours of sorrow has it softened, how many bitter irritations calmed, how many confused thoughts reduced to order, how many life-plans sketched in purple!”

Order Hours Plans Sorrow Bitter Employment Confused Purple Needles Irritation Indebtedness

Book:The College, the Market, and the Court: Or Woman's Relation to Education, Labor, and Law

Source: The College, the Market, and the Court: Or Woman's Relation to Education, Labor, and Law

“In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made”

Made Self Age Pain Loss Middle Regret Sorrow Passionate Conclusion Bitter Middle Ages Disillusionment Self Made

Book:Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women

Source: Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women

“Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.”

Sorrow Defeat Bitter Enthusiasm Foe Tactics Great Happiness

Book:Serapis

Source: Serapis

“But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.”

Sun Too Much Sorrow Moon Bitter Dawn Bitterness Heartbreaking

Book:Rimbaud

Source: Rimbaud

“Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?”

Soul Passion Sorrow Rage Bitter My Soul Conquer Crowns Violet Thorns Spears Crown Of Thorns Bitter Love

Author:Pablo Neruda

“Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.”

Men Joy Deals Known Periods Sorrow Defeat Casts Bitter Old Man

Book:Letters, Selected and Edited by Elting E. Morison

Source: Letters, Selected and Edited by Elting E. Morison

“Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.”

Seems Space Week Childhood Strange Sorrow Summer Wings Bitter Wings To Fly

Book:Marian Evans in the Twenty First Century

Source: Marian Evans in the Twenty First Century

“In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.”

“You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!”

Thinking Enough Earth Heaven Black Pleasure Like You Fine Becoming Sorrow Bitter Had Enough Fine Things

Book:Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman

Source: Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman

“In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.”

Source: The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

“There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.”

Source: THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Classic French Literature

“And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.”

Kind Seems House Grief Too Much Sorrow Blessing Dear Obvious Trials Bitter Disguise Blessings In Disguise

Book:The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my cords apart. The weary pen that sets my sorrow down Feeds at my heart. There is no mercy in the shifting year, No beauty wraps me tenderly about. I turn to little words- so you, my dear, Can spell them out.”

Years Heart Littles I Can Night Turns Grief Gone Sea My Heart Sorrow Shapes Singing Bird Mercy Dear Bitter Staring Silver Pens Spells Weary Leafs Woe Shifting Wraps Cords Loveliness Racks

Book:Not So Deep as a Well

Source: Not So Deep as a Well

“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.”

World Perfect Sorrow Passing Passings Bitter Mourning Relief Sympathy Agony Grief And Mourning Sad World

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.”

Moments Pain Records Events Sorrow Prison Bitter Jail Prison Time

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

“The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.”

Men Love Heart Country Earth Joy Given Grace Sadness Influence Duty Sorrow Taste Pure Angel Bitter Mysterious Thanks Fulfillment Sweetness Family Love Pure Joy

Book:The Duties of Man and Other Essays

Source: The Duties of Man and Other Essays

“Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.”

Source: Complete writings: with variant readings

“Each of us will taste the bitter ashes of life, from sin and neglect to sorrow and disappointment. But the atonement of Christ can lift us up in beauty from our ashes on the wings of a sure promise of immortality and eternal life. He will thus lift us up, not only at the end of life, but in each day of our lives.”

Ends Christ Sin Our Lives Sorrow Promise Taste Eternal Wings Disappointment Bitter Lifts Immortality Each Day Neglect Ashes Eternal Life Atonement End Of Life

Author:Bruce C. Hafen

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