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The strongest hearts are often burdened with the heaviest sorrows, yet they still beat with courage and resilience.
Author:
Sophia Anderson
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We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.
Author:
Shigeru Yoshida
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Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.
Author:
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.
Author:
Charles Wolfe
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This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
Author:
Isaac Wise
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Author:
Fay Weldon
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With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
Author:
John Webster
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Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
Author:
Alexandre Vinet
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Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.
Author:
Leo Szilard
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The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
Author:
John Strachan
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
Author:
Harriet Stowe
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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.
Author:
Freya Stark
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It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
Author:
Charles Spurgeon
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Author:
Sophocles
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The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
Author:
Samuel Smiles
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Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.
Author:
William Simms
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
Author:
Barbara Sher
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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Parting is such sweet sorrow.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.
Author:
Franz Schubert
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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Author:
Saadi
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Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
Author:
Ernest Renan
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Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.
Author:
Li Po
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Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
Author:
Andrei Platonov
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Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
Author:
Albert Pike
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Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.
Author:
Goran Persson
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Author:
Ovid
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Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Author:
Thomas More
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'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
Author:
Edward Moore
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My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.
Author:
Sun Moon
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Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
Author:
Joni Mitchell
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
Author:
H. Mencken
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There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
Author:
Herman Melville
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There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.
Author:
Frank Luntz
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The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
Author:
James Lowell
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Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.
Author:
John Logan
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Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
Author:
Giacomo Leopardi
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People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Author:
Ann Landers
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Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
Author:
Soren Kierkegaard
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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
Author:
Jack Kerouac
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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
Author:
Thomas Kempis
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If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
Author:
Lyndon Johnson
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Author:
Washington Irving
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Author:
Washington Irving
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When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.
Author:
Jean Ingelow
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
Author:
Zora Hurston
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Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
Author:
David Hume
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Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
Author:
Basil Hume
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
Author:
Herbert Hoover
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So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.
Author:
Thomas Hooker
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
Author:
Lafcadio Hearn
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
Author:
Karl Hartmann
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My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
Author:
Robert Frost
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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.
Author:
John Fletcher
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How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.
Author:
Clarissa Estes
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
Author:
George Eliot
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Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
Author:
Meister Eckhart
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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it.
Author:
Thomas Dekker
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Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
Author:
William Davenant
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
Author:
George Curtis
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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
Author:
Confucius
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Patience is sorrow's salve.
Author:
Charles Churchill
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Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.
Author:
Chris Christie
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I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Author:
Agatha Christie
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Author:
Agatha Christie
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He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
Author:
Chanakya
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.
Author:
Thomas Campbell
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Partying is such sweet sorrow.
Author:
Robert Byrne
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.
Author:
Joseph Butler
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However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.
Author:
Joseph Butler
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The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
Author:
Francis Braceland
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Author:
Corrie Boom
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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?
Author:
William Blake
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If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.
Author:
Dirk Benedict
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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
Author:
Amelia Barr
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He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part.
Author:
Richard Barnfield
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There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Author:
Thomas Aquinas
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Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
Author:
Thomas Aquinas
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Genius is sorrow's child.
Author:
John Adams
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Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.
Author:
Jack Abramoff
