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  • Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction. -- Tryon Edwards
  • Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Seas wept from our deep sorrows. -- John Milton
  • In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
  • I have noticed that after a time of deep sorrow the greatest comfort may come from a person you do not know well. -- Alice Adams
  • You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down -- Thrity Umrigar
  • Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown. -- George Eliot
  • My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake. -- George Eliot
  • If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys. -- Lucius Shepard
  • There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes. I feel a deep sorrow that my kids will never get to see what I've seen, and their kids will see nothing; there's a deep sadness whenever I look at nature now. -- Peter Matthiessen
  • I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today -- Tony Blair
  • But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope. -- Emily Maguire
  • Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty. -- Dorothy Richardson
  • Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind. -- Mason Cooley
  • To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound. -- Sophocles
  • The Baptist found him far too deep; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow; And the lean Levite went to sleep, And dreamed of tasting pork to-morrow. -- Winthrop Mackworth Praed
  • What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.What are deep? the ocean and truth. -- Christina Rossetti
  • It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me. -- Saint Ignatius
  • It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me. -- Saint Ignatius
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