Explore
Gaia Soulmates

Welcome to Gaia Community!

We're a little different than most social networks. Like you, we're here for a reason! Our goal? To inspire and empower you to realize your purpose, so that you can do the same for others, and so that, together, we can contribute to a better world.

Come join us... not only can you develop your own library of quotations and receive daily inspiration and wisdom, you'll be able to experience an emerging world of others who share your vision for a positive future.

Spiritual Cinema Circle
 Advertising keeps Gaia free! Interested in sponsoring us?
Send a Quotation Card

Did you know you can turn any of the short quotes on our site into an e-card?

Simply locate the quote you'd like to send, and if it fits on our card, you'll see an option for Send as greeting on the left side of the quote.

Or, if you'd like a more classic Greeting card, you can visit our Gaia Greeting Gallery.

Quote Size: All | Short | Tall | Grande | Venti

Quotes about Sorrow

And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no
more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One,
freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond
birth and decay.

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha : Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism
Buddha (563 - 483 BC)
Source: 'THE ARAHAT, OR HOLY ONE' in The Gospel of Buddha: Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus [1909]
Contributed by: Meenakshi. More quotes added by Meenakshi from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
Quote

Joy and sorrow are inseparable... Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Kahlil Gibran : Lebanese mystical poet, philosopher & painter
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Source: The Prophet: 26 poetic essays, Page: 30 (On Joy and Sorrow)
Contributed by: Tsuya. More quotes added by Tsuya from this | all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: joy, sorrow, non-duality
Quote

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Kahlil Gibran : Lebanese mystical poet, philosopher & painter
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Source: The Prophet: 26 poetic essays, Page: 29 (On Joy and Sorrow)
Contributed by: Tsuya. More quotes added by Tsuya from this | all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: joy, sorrow, contradiction
Quote
Btn_send-quote-as-greeting

He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.

Kedar : Superultramodern Science and Philosophy
Kedar Joshi
Source: Superultramodern Science and Philosophy
Contributed by: Kedar Joshi. More quotes added by Kedar from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
Quote

Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and often times we call a man sad, when only he is sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : American poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
 
Contributed by: harvardmindx. More quotes added by harvardmindx from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: sorrow, secret, sad
Quote

Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.

Adi Sankaracharya
Source: Tattva bodha of Sankaracharya, Page: 65
Contributed by: Meenakshi. More quotes added by Meenakshi from this | all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: nature, happiness, sorrow, miserable, veil, peaceful, joy
Quote

There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.

Adi Sankaracharya
Source: Tattva bodha of Sankaracharya, Page: 65
Contributed by: Meenakshi. More quotes added by Meenakshi from this | all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: sorrow, happiness, finitude, self, time, space, objects
Quote

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Queen Elizabeth II
Source: CNN
Contributed by: Scott. More quotes added by Scott from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: love, grief, losing, life, sorrow
Quote
Btn_send-quote-as-greeting

"Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached."

Buddha
Source: The Dhammapada
Contributed by: Holiday. More quotes added by Holly from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: happiness, sorrow, life, struggles, detachment, buddhism
Quote
Btn_send-quote-as-greeting

"There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow." - Jane Austen, 19th century author

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
 
Contributed by: Moni. More quotes added by Moni from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: jane austen, employment, sorrow, relief
Quote

What I know is like the leaves on that tree; what I teach is only a small part. But I offer it to all with an open hand. What do I not teach? Whatever is fascinating to discuss, divides people against each other, but has no bearing on putting an end to sorrow. What do I teach? Only what is necessary to take you to the other shore.

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha : Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism
Buddha (563 - 483 BC)
Source: Buddha in 'The Dhammapada,' trans. E. Easwaran
Contributed by: Meenakshi. More quotes added by Meenakshi from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: gautama, buddha, leaves, tree, teach, divide, sorrow, shore, harmony
Quote

God made man perfectly holy and happy; and the fair earth, as it came from the Creator's hand, bore no blight of decay or shadow of the curse. It is transgression of God's law--the law of love--that has brought woe and death. Yet even amid the suffering that results from sin, God's love is revealed. It is written that God cursed the ground for man's sake. Genesis 3:17. The thorn and the thistle--the difficulties and trials that make his life one of toil and care--were appointed for his good as a part of the training needful in God's plan for his uplifting from the ruin and degradation that sin has wrought. The world, though fallen, is not all sorrow and misery. In nature itself are messages of hope and comfort. There are flowers upon the thistles, and the thorns are covered with roses.

"God is love" is written upon every opening bud, upon every spire of springing grass. The lovely birds making the air vocal with their happy songs, the delicately tinted flowers in their perfection perfuming the air, the lofty trees of the forest with their rich foliage of living green -- all testify to the tender, fatherly care of our God and to His desire to make His children happy.

Ellen White
Source: Steps to Christ, ch. 1, God's Love for Man
Contributed by: Brian. More quotes added by Brian from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
Quote

The garden of
Love
is green without
limit
and yields many
fruits
other than sorrow
and joy.
Love is beyond either
condition:
without spring,
without autumn,
it is always fresh.

Mevlana Jelalu'ddin Rumi : Persian sufi mystic
Mevlana Rumi (1207 - 1273)
 
Contributed by: Jessica Farley. More quotes added by Jessica from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: love, joy, sorrow
Quote

 "Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful."

Bishop Jeremy Taylor
Source: Forces of Nature, the movie
Contributed by: Deborah. More quotes added by Deborah from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
Quote

How do you prove that you exist?  Maybe we don't Exist...

Vivi Ornitier
Source: Final Fantasy IX
Contributed by: Josef. More quotes added by Josef from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: ff9, ffix, vivi, black mage, sorrow
Quote
Btn_send-quote-as-greeting

We can only hold as much joy as the pain and suffering that we've had carved out of us.

unknown : Gaia Child
unknown
Source: Raleigh Miller
Contributed by: Angelo Ignacio. More quotes added by Angelo from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: inspiration, suffering, sorrow, sad
Quote
Btn_send-quote-as-greeting

Even sorrow or sympathy for the afflicted, or grief for the passing of loved ones, unbalances the body cells and makes one vulnerable to infections or destructive toxins, for such emotions have no relation to love or the inner joyousness of love-inspired man, nor are they within the God-Mind which alone knows unchanging ecstasy.
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for the afflicted makes a reality of the affliction by its recognition as an infliction, while sorrow for the loss of anything, or for the »unfortunate« condition of anybody, is forgetful of the beauty and abundance of all-giving God and Nature.
The Mind of God knows but one unchanging emotion – ECSTASY – the ecstasy of Love – the ecstasy which has its beginnings in an inner joyousness of one who is far on the road to the discovery of his immortal Self.

Walter Russell : Gaia Child
Walter Russell
Contributed by: Esa Ruoho. More quotes added by esaruoho from this | all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
Quote

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength

Corrie Boom
Source: Values for life
Contributed by: kalitx. More quotes added by kalitx from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: strength, sorrow, worry, life
Quote
Btn_send-quote-as-greeting

When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance, and inevitably, we will feel about us, their arms and their understanding.

Helen Adams Keller : American writer & lecturer, blind & deaf
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
 
Contributed by: Audrey. More quotes added by RainbowBright from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
Quote

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Kahlil Gibran : Lebanese mystical poet, philosopher & painter
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Source: The Prophet: 26 poetic essays, Page: 29 (On Joy and Sorrow)
Contributed by: Tricia. More quotes added by Trishie from this | all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: sorrow, happiness
Quote

In the gloom and darkness of the night, when there is a sudden flash of light, a person will recognize objects; in the same way, the one with a flash of insight sees according to reality--"This is how sorrow works; this is how it arises; this is how it can come to an end; this is the path leading to that end."

-Anguttara Nikaya
 

Anguttara Nikaya
Source: The Pocket Buddha Reader
Contributed by: mu. More quotes added by mu from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: darkness, sorrow, light, insight, ending sorrow
Quote

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?

Kahlil Gibran : Lebanese mystical poet, philosopher & painter
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Source: The Prophet, On Joy and Sorrow
Contributed by: jdp. More quotes added by jdp from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: joy, sorrow
Quote

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked... The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Kahlil Gibran : Lebanese mystical poet, philosopher & painter
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Source: The Prophet: 26 poetic essays, Page: 29 (On Joy and Sorrow)
Contributed by: D a r i n a. More quotes added by Joy Bringer from this | all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
Quote

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 (1802 - 1839)
Source: The Vicar
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: sleep, sorrow
Quote

Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill : British prime minister during World War II, winner of Nobel Prize for literature 1953
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Source: Report about the war, House of Commons, October 1940
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: companions, constancy, death, journeys, sorrow
Quote

Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.

William Wordsworth : English poet, leader of romantic movement
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Source: The Solitary Reaper.
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: pain, sorrow
Quote
Btn_send-quote-as-greeting

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

William Wordsworth : English poet, leader of romantic movement
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Source: Hart-leap Well. Part ii.
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: pleasure, pride, sorrow
Quote
Btn_send-quote-as-greeting

'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

William Wordsworth : English poet, leader of romantic movement
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Source: Weak is the Will of Man.
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: affliction, faith, sorrow
Quote

Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.

William Shakespeare : English poet, the greatest poet ever
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Source: King Richard III, Act 1, Scene 4
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: seasons, sorrow
Quote
Btn_send-quote-as-greeting

Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.

William Shakespeare : English poet, the greatest poet ever
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Source: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, iii:2
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: company, sleep, sorrow
Quote
Btn_send-quote-as-greeting
Page 1 of 71234»
Showing 1 - 30 of 195 Quotes