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1 " I read once that sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks ahead. "
2 " In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move. "
― Robin Hobb , Fool's Quest (The Fitz and The Fool, #2)
3 " Grief was dagger-shaped and sharp and pointed inward. It was made of fresh loss and old sorrow. Rendered and forged and sometimes polished. Irene Finney had taken her daughter’s death and to that sorrow she’d added a long life of entitlement and disappointment, of privilege and pride. And the dagger she’d fashioned was taking a brief break from slashing her insides, and was now pointed outward. "
― Louise Penny , A Rule Against Murder (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #4)
4 " Christ is with you. Do not abandon Him and He will not abandon you. You will see great sorrow, and in that sorrow you will be happy. This is my last message to you: in sorrow seek happiness. Work, work unceasingly. "
― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Brothers Karamazov
5 " You may have misery,” she continued, ignoring my plea, “you may lose hope in the sorrow of an unplanned life but as long as you have faith and trust in adoration, in affection, in love, that sorrow will turn to happiness. And that is a constant, dear.” She breathed deeply and steadily for a moment, seemingly catching her breath.“No one can know sincere happiness, Sophie, without first having known sorrow. One can never appreciate the enormity and rareness of such a fiery bliss without seeing misery, however unfair that may be.“And you will know honest happiness. Of that I am certain. Certain because it’s why you are here and also because here is your inevitability. "
― Fisher Amelie , Vain (The Seven Deadly, #1)
6 " She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters. "
― Leo Tolstoy
