What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?

Sadness is twilight's kiss on earth.

You went away from my heart And I held on, loving you But your tear stains spread And spread, till the tears Became a lake, and the lake Engulfed my heart That night, as I slept, I drowned In my heart.

Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love.

Misery is a communicable disease.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

That each sorrow has its purpose, By the sorrowing oft unguessed, But as sure as the sun brings morning, Whatever is-is best.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

'Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.

O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me No casual mistress, but a wife?

I shall drink with joy the cup of sorrow because my Beloved is the cup-bearer.

Be careful before leaving someone in a sorrowing situation. Say a word of prayer with them and share even a brief word of encouragement from the Scriptures.

Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.

It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures.

Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see the rough, brutal shape of a coffin.

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding and softens the heart.

She had the feeling that somehow, in the very far-off places, perhaps even in far-off ages, there would be a meaning found to all sorrow and an answer too fair and wonderful to be as yet understood.