Henri Nouwen

Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

Dutch Clergyman

Benjamin Franklin

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

American Politician

David Hume

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

Scottish Philosopher

Brad Pitt

Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.

Actor

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

American Poet

Herman Melville

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

American Novelist

Henry Ward Beecher

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

American Clergyman

Karolyn Grimes

Everybody has some sorrow, worry, and everybody asks God for help.

American Actress

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Indian Statesman

Andrei Platonov

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Russian Writer

Use 'sorrow' to describe a deep, often lasting sadness, more intense than simple sadness.

Emotional Intensity

'Sorrow' is a formal word often found in literature or formal statements, not used in casual talk.

Formal Expression

'Sorrow' suggests a lingering sadness that doesn't quickly pass.

Not Temporary

When 'sorrow' is used as a verb, it means to experience a deep, personal sadness.

Deep Sadness

The verb form of 'sorrow' is less common and has a poetic or old-fashioned tone in modern English.

Poetic Use

'Sorrow' as a noun can refer to a person, event, or situation causing deep sadness.

Brings Sadness

This form of 'sorrow' underscores the origin of one's sadness and is not referencing the sadness itself.

Unhappiness Source

 most of this world's population in comparison to almost any other nation we've got everything we need much more than that in fact so now it's up to us to wake up and when sorrow settles in and nothing fills it up when all you see is competition all you hear is fluff remember you are not an earth to

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 would always be shadowed by the joy from the past. Nirvana, he said, is what you arrive at when you have only bliss to look forward to and find in what looked like sorrows the seedlings of your joy. And I sometimes wonder whether I could have found such fulfillment in marriage and children

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 I've been given some insights that help the average person understand wines are critically important it's the most marvelous experience I can get it nowhere else on this planet that I found I also feel tremendous sorrow tremendous sorrow that 95% of them were killed and

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 or that we mandate any particular way of dying. There are mountains of sorrow that cannot move, and one way or another, we will all kneel there. Rather, I am asking that we make space -- physical, psychic room, to allow life to play itself all the way out --

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 and speak with his only companion— a stoic bull who listened patiently to the cowherd’s sorrows. But upon seeing the weaver’s beauty, the cowherd forgot his routine. While he longed to introduce himself, his lonely lifestyle had made him timid.

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 because it was like diving on a grave site you do feel like you're visiting the souls of your ancestors when you're dead and it's just difficult to explain the feeling sorrow anger disgust and you feel sort of feeling helplessness we

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 He soon came to a cramped cottage, with a woman crumpled outside. Filled with pity, the scholar implored the woman to share her sorrow. She explained that her mother had just died— but no one would help her with the burial.

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 I can't imagine my sorrow with my magnolias were hit by the fire, so we're very lucky. Climate change or climate disruption or global warming is hitting now. I remember when I was a kid how it used to rain.

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 smell of the earth on your hands and your brow. No time for sorrow, we're building tomorrow. The sound of things growing now keeps us around. As the wildness grows, and the deep wood grows,

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 It is a deep sense of serenity and fulfillment. A state that actually pervades and underlies all emotional states, and all the joys and sorrows that can come one's way.

Sorrow

A feeling of sadness or grief.

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To feel or express sadness or grief.

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A cause or thing that brings sadness or grief.

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Emotional Intensity

Formal Expression

Not Temporary

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