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A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.

Sarah Orne Jewett

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• Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Like
  • Lies
  • Everything

• The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Learn
  • Sorrow
  • Sympathy

• We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Sweet
  • Patience

• [Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

  

  A.J. Cronin
  • Today
  • Worry
  • Sorrow

• When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Inspiration

• My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Words

• The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Heart
  • Man

• Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Deep
  • Sorrow
  • Increase

• Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.

  

  J. C. Macaulay
  • Sorrow
  • Consolation
  • Console

• Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Night
  • Black
  • Sea

• We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • Sorrow
  • Meet

• To revive sorrow is cruel.

  

  Sophocles
  • Sorrow
  • Cruel
  • Revive

• When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Joy
  • Sorrow
  • Disappointments

• The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Sacrifice
  • Sorrow
  • Sense Of Peace

• Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Joy
  • Reflection

• Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Choices
  • Library
  • Sorrow

• For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Done
  • Sorrow
  • Ends

• All hands drowned, except the Red Hound of Mykenos, who bit the sea until it spit him back.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Sea
  • Hands
  • Bit

• So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Atari
  • Hewlett-Packard

• You choose your own reality and you - social media then amplifies those conspiracy theories. So that's why I say social media is itself a revolutionary phenomenon.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Media
  • Revolutionary
  • Conspiracy

• It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • Love
  • Passion

• A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Sorrow