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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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.
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When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.
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We feel good. We are full of confidence. We take game after game and try to win every game.
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They said no future forget it You came from the wrong side of town I said don't listen don't let it Let it bring you down Make you wear a frown.
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To revive sorrow is cruel.
