I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.
—Søren Kierkegaard
“We want experienced men and women to talk to converted children, and to tell them what the Lord has done for them, and what have been their dangers, their sins, their sorrows, and their comforts.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“We want experienced men and women to talk to converted children, and to tell them what the Lord has done for them, and what have been their dangers, their sins, their sorrows, and their comforts.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Sin and sorrow cannot be divorced.
Holiness and happiness cannot be separated.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“This is a great evidence of the writing of the law upon the heart, when holiness becomes a pleasure, and sin becomes a sorrow.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Even though you fall into sin through the infirmity of your flesh, yet if it causes you intense agony and sorrow it is because God has written his law in your heart.”
– Charles Spurgeon
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.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow.
—Laozi
This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
—Charles Dickens
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
My sorrow is my castle.
—Søren Kierkegaard
I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
—Thomas Aquinas
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
—Cicero
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
—Seneca
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
—William Shakespeare
Weep with them that weep. If you can do no more, at least mix your tears with theirs; and give them healing words, such as may calm their minds, and mitigate their sorrows.
—John Wesley
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
—Nikolai Gogol
There are men and women who have a sorrow of such a character that they cannot confide it to any human ear; and they say: “Nobody knows it. Nobody sympathizes with me.” Yes, there is One who knows, and He sympathizes with you—God.
—R. A. Torrey
God will shortly put a blessed end to all your troubles, cares, and watchings. The time is coming when your heart will be as you would have it, when you will be discharged of these cares, fears & sorrows and never cry out, Oh my hard, proud, vain & earthly heart anymore.
—John Flavel
The upright soul, though he may be drawn to sin, yet he cannot reflect upon his sin without shame and sorrow, which plainly shows it to be an involuntary surprise.
—John Flavel
In the course of reading he [Alexander Pushkin] became more and more melancholy and finally became completely gloomy. When the reading was over he uttered in a voice full of sorrow: “Goodness, how sad is our Russia!”
—Nikolai Gogol
Sin is the greatest evil. Paul’s greatest sorrow was for sin (Rom. 7:24). Paul never cried ‘O wretched man that I am’ because he had suffered so much affiction, but only for his sin!
—Jeremiah Burroughs
God when he will bring life, brings it out of death, he brings joy out of sorrow, and he brings prosperity out of adversity.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Grace teaches us how to make a mixture of gracious joy and gracious sorrow together.
—Jeremiah Burroughs