William Wordsworth Quotes

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it.

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

Without hope we are lost.

We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.