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“A pedant who beheld Solon weeping for the death of a son said to him, ‘Why do you weep thus, if weeping avails nothing?’ And the sage answered him, ‘Precisely for that reason—because it does not av...”
“Frailty, thy name is woman!—A little month, or ere those shoes were oldWith which she follow'd my poor father's body,Like Niobe, all tears:—”
“Sorrow is what I feel for people who aren’t doing what they love. I keep my distance from them as though they’re contagious. They are, I believe.”
“About suffering they were never wrong The Old Masters How well they understood Its human position how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.”
“In extreme youth in our most humiliating sorrow we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too.”
“When sorrows come they come not as single spies But in battalions!”
“Men who are unhappy like men who sleep badly are always proud of the fact.”
“What man is there that does not laboriously though all unconsciously himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.”
“While grief is fresh every attempt to divert it only irritates.”
“No one can keep his griefs in their prime they use themselves up.”
“Sorrow is a fruit God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.”
“There are few sorrows however poignant in which a good income is of no avail.”
“I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she But oh the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me.”
“Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns.”
“All sorrows are bearable if there is bread.”
“Hang sorrow care'll kill a cat.”
“To Sorrow I bade good-morrow And thought to leave her far away behind But cheerly cheerly She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me and so kind.”
“Sorrows are like thunderclouds - in the distance they look black over our heads scarcely gray.”
“The deeper the sorrow the less tongue hath it.”
“Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed Loving the storm that sways her - I found more joy in sorrow Than you could find in joy.”
