Sorrow

About Sorrow

“Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.”
— Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene Home.
“That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.”
— Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall (1835, published 1842), Stanza 38. Churton Collins, in Illustrations of Tennyson, p. 62, refers to Pindar, Pythian 4. 510, and Thucydides II. 44, as inspiring these lines.
“Oderunt hilarem tristes tristemque jocosi.”
— The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.
“How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.”
— Horatius Bonar, p. 555.
“As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens,charity and sympathy increase.”
— George C. Lorimer, p. 557.
“There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.”
— John Heyl Vincent, p. 556.

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