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While fun is desirable, regret is quite the opposite. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The heart's smiles help wipe away the soul's tears. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound. — Seneca The Younger

Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself. — Robin McKinley

Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow. — William Shakespeare

Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker. — Walter Wangerin Jr.

To be afraid of sorrow is to be afraid of joy also. — Rebecca West

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. — Seneca.

There is often grief that comes with loving, Moshe. But it is worth it. — Bodie Thoene

Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider. — Dean Koontz

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that. — Ruth Gordon

A heart's wound heals quicker than a soul's scratch. — Matshona Dhliwayo

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips. — Jodi Picoult

It's what happens when two people become one: they no longer only share love. They also share all of the pain, heartache, sorrow, and grief. — Colleen Hoover

Like young fern shoots
my child's fingers curled.
I did not expect,
in the fifth month, frost. — Lian Hearn

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief. — Sophocles

It never ends, the bruise
of being — Kevin Young

Sorrow can be a bully. — Amy Waldman

Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure. — Lydia Millet

Sorrow fades," he muttered as he retrieved the last fragment, "grief dies, but Art lives forever. — Kenyon Gambier

A grief travels with us as far as we carry it. — Marty Rubin

Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand. — Flavia Weedn

The closet bond that we share with our brethren is that of grief. Every community knows sorrow. — Kilroy J. Oldster

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. — Oscar Wilde

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break. — William Shakespeare

Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear. — Frances Ridley Havergal

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared. — Sophie Swetchine

Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge. — Lord Byron

Loss leaves us empty- but learn not to close your heart and mind to grief. Allow life to replinish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible- but new — Pam Brown

Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand. — Grace Noll Crowell

Never let the salt of your tears be tasteless in grief. — Munia Khan

The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow. — Edgar Allan Poe

There is no space wider than that of grief ... — Pablo Neruda

I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else. — Robin Hobb

The soul's tears are worth more than the heart's smiles. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Just as when clouds are full they pour out rain, so when men are full of grief, they pour out tears. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Tears of joy are better than smiles of sorrow. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Perhaps grief is as much regret for what we have never had as sorrow for what we have lost. — David Nicholls

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed. — William Davenant

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief. — Walter Scott

Rejection is one of the worse forms of pain. Loss is the worst. Grief haunts until you allow yourself to move on. — Angelica Hopes

He stroked her back and kept a fierce grip on her like she'd fade away into one of the thousands of ghosts in this cemetery. — Katherine McIntyre

When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow. — Roberto Bolano

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art. — Oscar Wilde

Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief. — Seneca.

Lincoln matured best in sorrow. — Elton Trueblood

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid. — Pearl S. Buck

For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge the more grief. — Anonymous

Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end. — Thomas Otway

Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived. — George Herbert

Death. What a brief word for the extinguishing of life. To be no more. To have days cut off and at their end. To never again ... anything. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Surviving the death of a loved one ... one day at a time. — Sandra Toscano Huerta

grief is as much regret for what we have never had as sorrow for what we have lost. As — David Nicholls

Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his mind ... — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process. — C.S. Lewis

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying. — Richard Bach

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly — Christian Nestell Bovee

Grief came in waves, sometimes big, sometimes small, but even on the calmest days, the grief remained. The tide still came ashore. — Dianna Hardy

You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away. — Mary Jo Bang

Resistance is vain in any case; it only leads to useless struggle while inviting grief and sorrow. — Epictetus

All a person does in a moment of suffering is to suffer. There is not room for anything else. — Philip O Ceallaigh

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. — Meghan O'Rourke

More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs. — Callimachus

Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell. — William Shakespeare

What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering. — Gautama Buddha

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

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop. — William Shakespeare

Why is crying so pleasurable? I feel clean, absolutely purged after it. As if I had a grief to get over with, some deep sorrow. — Sylvia Plath

Cursed the crown that brought such grief to me — J. Leigh Bralick

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Women eat ice-cream, men toast marshmallows. — Dianna Hardy

To weep is to make less the depth of grief. — William Shakespeare

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief. — Petrarch

Sorrow makes us all children again. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love? — Rachel L. Schade

A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it. — Vironika Tugaleva

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow. — Cormac McCarthy

Grief was for the others; sorrow and pain were for the others; some terrible mistake had been made. — John Cheever

Gentle time will heal our sorrows. — Sophocles

So much ice.
She thumbed a drying tear away.
How much water can the weight of ice carry? — Dianna Hardy

Love's whispers drown out sorrow's echoes. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself. — Germaine Greer

To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending. — Bell Hooks

God didn't design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees. — Shannon L. Alder

Great sorrows have no leisure to complain:
Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain. — William Goffe

Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. — Horace Greeley

There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow. — William Faulkner

Grief lets you indulge in it, so that it can feed itself. — Sreesha Divakaran

The creation itself is full of griefs. How can one understand joy if there is no sorrow? And how can everyone be happy at the same time? — Sarada Devi

Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together! — Thomas Parsons

The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history. — Sol Luckman

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. — Oscar Wilde

A woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance. — Elsie De Wolfe

Secrets are festering parasites to a relationship, devouring their hosts from within, leaving behind a empty hollow husk of what once was. — Mark W. Boyer

One thing I have learned during these past few terrible years is that our grief and sorrow should be shared, not carried alone. — Lynn Austin

It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most. — Jocelyn Murray

Grief and sorrow; both are fervently shape your character. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann