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Is your face a beautiful blossom
or a sweet torture?
I have no complaints
but my heart is tempted
to let you
hear of its sorrows. — Rumi

Ideas are substitutes for sorrows... — Marcel Proust

Return to the world still more brilliant because of your former sorrows. — Alexandre Dumas

It is the mark of a true saint that his sorrows remind him of his sins, and his sorrow for sin drives him to his God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The blood that ran down from the cross in redemption for all sins and penance for all sorrows - that was the visible sign. — Sigrid Undset

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders. — Nhat Hanh

Alcohol units: 5. Drowning sorrows. Cigarettes: 23. Fumigating sorrows. Calories: 3,856. Smothering sorrows in fat duvet. — Helen Fielding

Holy men tell us life is a mystery.
They embrace that concept happily.
But some mysteries bite and bark
and come to get you in the dark. — Dean Koontz

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim. — Frida Kahlo

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows. — Alfred De Musset

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time. — Louis Sullivan

Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows. — Roger Scruton

He feels all our sorrows, needs, and burdens as his own. That is why it is said that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ. — John Flavel

I wonder if He anticipates the day when He can make us understand what was occurring in our time of trial. I wonder if He broods over our sorrows. — James C. Dobson

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. — Charles Spurgeon

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

All sorrows are less with bread. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay. - China Sorrows - — Derek Landy

Life has its own chapters and no chapter stays for ever. Move on and enjoy the wonders and face the sorrows of upcoming chapters. — Vishnu Kanchan

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

If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted. — Rabindranath Tagore

Some seek
solace in
whiskey,

I drown my
sorrows
in ink. — Noor Shirazie

Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot. — L.M. Montgomery

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears. — Chris Womersley

Life is an oasis which is submerged in the swirling waves of sorrows and agonies. — Thomas Hardy

Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Gus was looking at him for confirmation of all his sorrows. — Jack Kerouac

I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect — Shelagh Delaney

The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable. — Rosellen Brown

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations — Hippocrates

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread. — Miguel De Cervantes

Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. — Anne Frank

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

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learned to swim — Bono

He drowned his sorrows, though like other drowned things they had a habit of floating to the surface when least expected. — Margaret Atwood

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. — Amy Tan

But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus. — Gautama Buddha

My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs. — Franz Schubert

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. — Henry Ward Beecher

She had forgotten his faults as we forget
the sorrows of our departed childhood. — George Eliot

In my experience, people's sorrows are always in danger of bursting out; it's only through careful inattention that they can be contained. — Suzanne Berne

I was trying to drown my sorrows," I explained, looking down into the bottom of my glass, "but my sorrows learned to swim. — Eliza Lentzski

[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life. — Sadegh Hedayat

She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me. — Dean Koontz

Be a master of your dreams, not the slave of your sorrows. — Vikrmn

I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me. — Nadine Gordimer

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent. — Richelle E. Goodrich

If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding. — Subhash Kak

When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows. — Gary Player

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows.
But stories all ... — William Joyce

Our memory of joys and sorrows is always imperfect, and they become a matter of indifference to us as soon as they are over. — Arthur Schopenhauer

God is bigger than our pain and sorrows. He's bigger than our guilt. He is able to take anything we give Him and turn it around for good. — Tracie Peterson

I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows. — Ella Leya

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. — William Shakespeare

May your heart be mine, may my heart be yours. May your sorrows be mine, may my joys be yours. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate. — John Dryden

Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent. — Henry Ward Beecher

I wish I could've done more for her, but some sorrows were simply too individual to share. — Edwidge Danticat

I'll go to Venice and drown my sorrows. — Maureen Johnson

My heart is an ocean of sorrows slowly drowning me, and I let it." - Thia Clay — Alice Rachel

So you , too , must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person — Paulo Coelho

When the sunshine of God's love meets the shadows of our sorrows, the rainbow of promise appears. — Ryan Jo Summers

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

Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who d trusts in the LORD. — Anonymous

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

In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release. — William Rounseville Alger

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. — Stefan Kanfer

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

Seas wept from our deep sorrows. — John Milton

But now that her moral sorrows were passing away a fresh one arose — Thomas Hardy

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for. — Nan Fairbrother

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

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

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

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

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

I write to shed my tears. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep. — William Blake

Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery. — William George Jordan

Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows. — Abhijit Naskar

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded. — Oscar Wilde

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows. — Bernard Malamud

We are made exactly as God wants us to be. We only need to lift our minds above Earth's empty sorrows so that we can rejoice in the Divine joy. — Julian Of Norwich

A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. — William Wordsworth

Life is fleeting;
your joys make it seem even shorter,
but your sorrows make it seem too long. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees. — Chanakya

You hear things."
"Do I?"
"People talk to you."
"I am very approachable. — Derek Landy

If I am to have a life of sorrows, I will not let them conquer me. — Lena Coakley

It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth. — Charles Henry Mackintosh

Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows. — Jeremias Gotthelf

If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you. — Gautama Buddha

Sorrows is more plentiful than dinners just now; I — Elizabeth Gaskell

No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found. — Isaac Watts

Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life. — Neil Diamond

And the young do not tell themselves to the young, but to the old, like me, who have known so many sorrows and the causes of them. — Bram Stoker