Samuel Johnson Quotes

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.

If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother — even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. So is yours. You are not grieving your son’s death because his death was ugly and unfair. You’re grieving it because you loved him truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of his death.

There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.

Despair is part of love.

Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.

One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn