Best sorrow & states Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?”

Men Firsts States Joy Duty Sorrow Reflection Mercy

Author:William Shakespeare

“The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.”

States Reality Seems Joy Effort Sorrow Intellectual Conscious Appreciate Invisible Inevitable Compare Aspiration Incapable Attainment Unthinkable

Book:Proust

Source: Proust

“Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but on this particular occasion such was my state of feeling, that I began to fancy myself inspired; so I took pen in hand, and as usual I went ahead.”

Feels Writing Said States Feelings Hands Particular Sorrow Inspired Occasions Fancy Pens Usual Oysters

Book:A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...

Source: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...

“Tears and sorrows and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life: some for our manifest good, and ail, therefore, it is trusted, for our good concealed;--for our final and greatest good.”

States Loss Tears Sorrow Finals Manifest Trusted Affliction Concealed

Author:Leigh Hunt

“even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.”

Men States Happiness Health Sorrow Disease Normal

Author:Alice Hegan Rice

“I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.”

Mind States Joy Deals Sorrow Currents Affected State Of Mind Sad Things

Author:Luise Rainer

“Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.”

Mind States Past Desire Sorrow Fixed Looking Forward Looking Forward To The Future

Book:The Rambler

Source: The Rambler

“Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality. When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.”

Trying States Reality Seems Causes Hurt Love Is Sorrow Absolutes Resistance Pleasant Display Frightening Resisting Momentary Time Love

Author:Adyashanti

“How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!”

Source: The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

“Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude.”

Men Mean States Wish Sorrow Anxiety Errors Tension Servitude

Author:Epictetus

“Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.”

People Mind States Running Tears Sorrow Laughter Calm Extremes Fickle Merriment

Book:Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living

Source: Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living

“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.”

States Sorrow Anxiety Tension Servitude

Author:Epictetus

“In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully.”

States Pain Joy Pleasure Sorrow Constant This Life Permanent Pain Pleasure

Author:Danielle Cormack

“Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and anger - and by doing so they free us from the unique sorrow of being human...I told Mom my own theory of why we like birds - of how birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.”

People Humans May Said States My Own Theory Mom Sorrow Prove Behavior Unique Bird Miracle Strive Greed Stupidity Being Human Human Behavior Exhibits

Author:Douglas Coupland

“Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood”

Men States Young Certain Sin Steps Boys Sorrow Young Man Manhood Sorrowful

Book:The Mark of the Beast

Source: The Mark of the Beast

“Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.”

“I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.”

States Turns Process Grief Sorrow Maps Grief Observed

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one's desk, is a source of profound satisfaction.”

Ifs States Moments Remember Greater Source Sorrow Calling Misery Profound Satisfaction Mood Desks Anguish Tranquil Happy Times

Book:The periodic table

Source: The periodic table

“Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not financial problems. You are at ease with yourself. You are not at the mercy of unfulfilled cravings. Confusion is replaced with clarity. There is a relieving answer to every tormenting question. You possess a True Self. Something can be done about every unhappy condition. While living in the world you can be inwardly detached from its sorrows to live with personal peace and sanity.”

“As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.”

World States This World Sorrow Scene Mere Satisfaction Enjoyment Unhappiness

Book:The Analogy of Religion ... A new edition, with an introductory essay, by Rev. Albert Barnes; and a complete index

Source: The Analogy of Religion ... A new edition, with an introductory essay, by Rev. Albert Barnes; and a complete index

“Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess”

World Mind States Player Pride Sorrow Tragedy Currents Chess State Of Mind Chess Players Fischer

Author:Frank Brady

“It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite points of view. How we shall experience it depends upon the way we shall come up against it: God does not change; it is man's moral state that changes. The wrath of God is a figure of speech to denote God's unchanging opposition to sin; it is His righteous love operating to destroy evil. It is not evil that will have the last word, but good; not sorrow, but joy; not hate, but love.”

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