Best sorrow & wise Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is a kind and wise arrangement of Providence that weaves our sorrows into the elements of character and that all the disappointments, and conflicts, and afflictions of life may, if rightly used, become the means of improvement, and create in us the sinews of strength.... the dross is left in the crucible, the baser metals are transmuted, and the character is enriched with gold.”

Ifs Kind May Mean Character Used Left Wise Sorrow Conflict Elements Gold Disappointment Improvement Metals Providence Arrangements Affliction Crucible Dross

Author:William Morley Punshon

“A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.”

Men World Heart Character Past Wise Type Sorrow Findings Visible Thrown Broads Reverence Luminous Verge Frail Gleam

Book:Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal

Source: Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal

“We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.”

Knows Way Giving Mean Self Seems Eye Earth Heaven Wish Wise Blood Worst Sorrow Highest Ears Islam Flesh Denial Vain Resignation Flesh And Blood God Is Great

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.”

Joy Hate Wise Sorrow Ambition Pity Indifferent Humiliation Being Wise Love And Hate Joys And Sorrows

Author:Michael Ende

“Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.”

Art Pain Too Much Wise Sorrow Anger Presses Tongue Pity Tied Being Wise Disdain Tongue Tied

Book:Sonnets

Source: Sonnets

“Then I turned to him commanding That he go the way he came, whence he came. But he answered me in sorrow, "May the Past not seek to borrow From the Present without blame - Just one memory from its store, Ere it goes to come no more, Back the pathway that it came, whence it came?"”

Way May Wisdom Past Memories Wise Sorrow Blame Stores Just One Pathways

Book:Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.”

Should Grief Wise Sorrow Instructors

Book:Manfred

Source: Manfred

“Everything is sorrow for the wise.”

Wise Sorrow

Author:Patanjali

“Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still beautiful, but she looked very far away. No wonder our people had raven eyes, so distant, so sad. No matter how wise she was, my mother looked like a woman who hadn't truely believed how much evil there was in our world. Not until this moment.”

People World Looks Stills Matter Enough Moments Eye Beautiful Young Mother Evil Wonder Wise Sorrow Down And Our World My Sister Far Away Ravens So Sad Abra

Author:Alice Hoffman

“Everything ends, and Everything matters. Everything matters not in spite of the end of you and all that you love, but because of it. Everything is all you’ve got…and after Everything is nothing. So you were wise to welcome Everything, the good and the bad alike, and cling to it all. Gather it in. Seek the meaning in sorrow and don’t ever turn away, not once, from here until the end. Because it is all the same, it is all unfathomable, and it is all infinitely preferable to the one dreadful alternative.”

Ends Matter Turns Wise Sorrow Welcome Alternatives Spite Unfathomable

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain safe from the other, but I should rather choose to have my eyes burnt in their sockets than to have been born without.”

Should Believe Wells Has Beens Eye Born Wise Love You Sorrow Safe Seeds Carrie Great Love

Book:Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

Source: Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

“Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.”

Men Feels Said Can Do Wise Sorrow Comfort Quiet Welcome Grieving Sincere Efficient Affliction Consolation Deep Sorrow

Book:The New Dictionary of Thoughts

Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts

“This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise. Their aid they yield to all: they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone; Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd; Nor tell to various people various things, But show to subjects, what they show to kings.”

Source: The Poetical Works of George Crabbe, Etc. [With a Portrait and a Prefatory Memoir Signed: C. T.]

“Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.”

Men Reason Wisdom Wise Sorrow Intelligence

Book:Medea

Source: Medea

“If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.”

Ifs Men Hands Happiness Wise Sorrow Eastern Confucianism Eastern Philosophy Chinese Philosophy Confucian

Book:The Analects

Source: The Analects

“To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise.”

Knows Men Should Pain Happiness Wise Fate Ignorance Sorrow Late Rings Bliss Paradise Folly Too Late Being Wise Ignorance Is Bliss Unfeeling

Author:Thomas Gray

“God, make me brave for life: oh, braver than this. Let me straighten after pain, As a tree straightens after the rain, Shining and lovely again. God, make me brave for life; much braver than this. As the blown grass lifts, let me rise From sorrow with quiet eyes, Knowing Thy way is wise. God, make me brave, life brings Such blinding things. Help me to keep my sight; Help me to see aright That out of dark comes light.”

Way Helping Light Eye Pain Dark Darkness Knowing Wise Tree Sorrow Quiet Rain Let Me Sight Bravery Shining Brave Lovely Lifts Grass Help Me After The Rain

Author:Grace Noll Crowell

“Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.”

May Done Law Wise Tears Ready Sorrow Flow Fruit Terror Multitudes Gathering Laws Of Nature Ripe Ripe Fruit

Author:Lucretia Mott

“To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to some small star. Philosopher. Whilst she yet lives, were stars decay'd, Their light by hers relief might find; But Death will lead her to a shade Where Love is cold and Beauty blind. Lover. Lovers, whose priests all poets are, Think every mistress, when she dies, Is changed at least into a star: And who dares doubt the poet wise? Philosopher. But ask not bodies doom'd to die To what abode they go; Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.”

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