Sophocles Quotes
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When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
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We are not by nature cruel.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
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I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.
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I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.
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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.
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Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
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[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
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Lack of knowledge is the
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When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.
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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.
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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.
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There is a grim and ghastly humor -- the humor that is born of a pathetic philosophy -- which now and then strikes me in reading the bright and keen-witted work of our American paragraphers. It is a humor that may be crystallized by hunger and sorrow and tears. It is not found elsewhere as it is in America. It is out of the question in England, because an Englishman cannot poke fun at himself. He cannot joke about an empty flour-barrel. We can: especially if by doing it we may swap the joke for another barrel of flour. We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.
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I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.
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Sometimes I have problems where I get into a mode where even just looking at a page on a screen makes me panic. And getting past that is a really intense thing to do.
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I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person.
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To revive sorrow is cruel.
