Pastoral Resources

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.

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.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.