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Sorrow and life go hand in hand. — Susan Fraser King

Learn weeping, and thou shalt gain laughing. — George Herbert

When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing. — Ovid

Time blunts the pain and creates a mist over one's memory - at least in the case of death and sorrow. Other types of pain linger longer. — Melanie Dickerson

The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sorrow rushed into her soul, moaning softly like the winter wind in abandoned manor houses. — Gustave Flaubert

Hurt. Enough to want to make someone else hurt too. — Ellen Hopkins

Men brave and generous live the best lives, seldom will they sorrow; then there are fools, afraid of everything, who grumble instead of giving. — Anonymous

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

And the pomegranates,/
like memories, are bittersweet/
as we huddle together,/
remembering just how good/
life used to be — Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow. — Noah Webster

Righteousness is light;
wickedness is darkness.
Righteousness and joy are brothers;
evil and sorrow are cousins. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you. — Kahlil Gibran

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. — William, Saroyan

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity. — Aleksandar Hemon

The sorrow which has no vent in tears
may make other organs weep. — Henry Maudsley

One must have sorrow to truly appreciate joy. — Megan Hart

It is better to be hungry in joy, than to be filled in sorrow. — Dennis E. Adonis

Life kisses our faces every morning. Yet, between morning and evening, she laughs at our sorrows. — Kahlil Gibran

There is enough heartache and sorrow in this life without our adding to it through our own stubbornness, bitterness, and resentment. — Dieter F. Uchdorf

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows. — Oscar Wilde

She knew she had never been truly alive until she met him, and never so happy and content with her lot until she was touched by the sorrow of him. — Martine Leavitt

It never ends, the bruise
of being — Kevin Young

In joy and sorrow all are equal,
Thus be guardian of all, as of yourself. — Shantideva

Nobody notices your sorrow, your pain,
but everyone notices your mistakes. — Miley Cyrus

This world is all vanity. It is a tempest hurling us from one sorrow to another. — Jocelyn Murray

Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond. — Ron Rash

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows. — Honore De Balzac

To let sorrow go his own way
one gives happiness a chance — Mario

I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment. — Pope John Paul II

Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow
Part equally among us; storms divided,
Abate their force, and with less rage are guided. — John Heywood

You are too strong for this rain and too strong for this sorrow. — Anne Rice

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

Sorrow is sorrow. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above. — Gordon Lightfoot

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. — Fay Weldon

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us. — Freya Stark

parting is such a sweet sorrow — Jeffrey Archer

It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

I felt a darkness growing within me that was too numb for sorrow and too cold for rage. — Gregory David Roberts

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose. — Albert Camus

We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken. — Oscar Wilde

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity. — Samuel Johnson

O God, take all our sorrows and use them to show us the nature of our joy. — Leslie Weatherhead

Your sorrow is yours--truly yours. No one can borrow or share it. No one can carry it for you. — Debasish Mridha

Truly there are different kinds of pain. But the most agonizing is the pain of regret, for which there is no lasting relief and no remedy. — Richelle E. Goodrich

His love was so intense, yet his soul held so much sorrow. I wondered if his hurt went so deep that he could never heal. — A.L. Jackson

All things are dark to sorrow. — Augusta Jane Evans

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow. — Coolio

Sorrow makes us all children again. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading. — Daniel Pennac

In your winter you deny your spring, — Kahlil Gibran

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest. — Samuel Johnson

Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow! But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It — William Shakespeare

Two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary. — Aldous Huxley

Excess of happiness and excess of sorrow, both are hazardous. Emotions require a balanced diet too. — Chandan Sharma

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas") — Horace

[...] one louing howre
For many yeares of sorrow can dispence:
A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sowre — Edmund Spenser

The dryad nodded to Ash, standing silently nearby. The Winter prince can fight for you, I imagine. He smells of blood and sorrow. — Julie Kagawa

Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow. — John Steinbeck

In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling. — Leo Tolstoy

In life, you don't have miracles, you don't have anything but whatever you can hold on to. — Nandanie Phalgoo

When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths. — William Mountford

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own. — Victor Hugo

Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Singing diminishes sorrow. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere. — Leonard Cohen

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. — Samuel Johnson

Some time ago, a man filled with sorrow handed me a bag filled with hope. Those stones were in that bag, — Kristen Ashley

Such a quintessentially Human thing, to express sorrow through apology. — Becky Chambers

I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow. — Rumi

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow — Soren Kierkegaard

A situation in itself," he said, "is neither happy nor unhappy. It's only your response to it that causes your sorrow. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chase away sorrow by living — Melissa Marr

Seas wept from our deep sorrows. — John Milton

Premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow. — Oliver Goldsmith

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

Branches moved and shadows shifted as Lilith dug the poppet's final grave. — Georgina Anne Taylor

Nobody can see the trouble I see, nobody knows my sorrow. — Soe Hok Gie

Nobody's life is entirely free of pain and sorrow. Isn't it a question of learning to live with them rather than trying to avoid them? — Eckhart Tolle

Sorrow is easier than guilt. — Anne Sexton

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

You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony. — William Goldman

You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down — Thrity Umrigar

I won't scatter your sorrow to the heartless sea. I will always be with you. — Hideo Kojima

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

In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness. — William Wordsworth

Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of. — Hermann Hesse

Take happiness where you can," he said. "It seldom lasts - 'course, neither does sorrow, right? — Patricia Briggs

Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt. — Alice Hegan Rice

During her childhood Tita didn't distinguish between tears of laughter and tears of sorrow. For her, laughing was a form of crying. — Laura Esquivel

Only tears can understand the joy of sorrow. — Cecil Thounaojam

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow. — Orson Scott Card

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy. — Franz Schubert

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair. — Robert Greene

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow. — Yoko Ono

Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop. — Will Christopher Baer

THERE'S OLD SORROW in your blood like second nature and new sorrow that maddens the halls of sense. Causes — Sebastian Barry

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. — Alfred De Musset