No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

— Mary Boykin Chesnut

In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.

— Michael Bruce

“When we tell our stories, the gods hear our sorrows.”

— Cathy Ostlere

Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul…

— Honore de Balzac

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

— Charles Spurgeon

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

— Isak Dinesen

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no…

— Frederic Chopin

Most Christians would rather be happy than feel the wounds of other peoples' sorrows.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.”

— Oscar Wilde

The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry.

— Nalini Singh

Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business, Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care Take hold on me;…

— William Shakespeare

“The only thing to do with one's old sorrows is to tuck them up neatly in their shroud and turn one's face away from…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come…

— Anonymous

So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the…

— Samuel Johnson

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

— Samuel Johnson