#sorrow

Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks. ↗

— John Burnham Schwartz

#sorrow #beauty

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin. ↗

— John Webster

#eldest #held #sin #sorrow

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. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#american people #anger #believe #communication #disappointment

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#develop #grieves #our #sorrows #trials

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#day #dream #dreary #gloom #happy

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#apologize #being #come #curtain #decent

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

— Herman Melville

#goodness #more #sorrow #than #too

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#joy #paint #sing #sorrow

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#become #calm #faith #faithful #find

My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#every #god #his #liberate #sorrow