“Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else’s joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A kiss is the prize?’ he asked sadly. ‘Even more than giving me the rest of you? It should be the other… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm. — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life.… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I think the novel is essentially a comic form (tragedy is for the theatre), not meaning by that full of jokes, but… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief?… — William Blake Copy Share Image
When I wake, a piece of sharp green glass on the floor is cutting into my hand and I know it's a… — Ibi Kaslik Copy Share Image
I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Then he looked by him, and was ware of a damsel that came riding as fast as her horse might gallop upon… — Thomas Malory Copy Share Image