Sorrow Quotes
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When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.
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In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.
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Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.
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[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.
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That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.
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There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
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And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.
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. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.
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... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.
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Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
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This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.
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It is Christlike work to soothe and sympathize, and only those who have drunk the cup of sorrow are fully equipped to do it.
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Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
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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.
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Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.
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And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.
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If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.
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In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
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The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.
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I am a man of constant sorrow. I've seen trouble all my days.
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If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.
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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
