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2340 Sorrow quotes by 1237 unique authors
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From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has been the ultimate…
— Simon Schama
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If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
— Confucius
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A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and respect. We are…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess
— Frank Brady
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When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.
— Ovid
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Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.
— Euripides
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On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows…
— Thomas Carlyle
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That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.
— John Green
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My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't…
— Marianne Williamson
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Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier…
— William Lyon Phelps
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Some labor this side of the veil, others on the other side of the veil. If we tarry here we expect to labor in the…
— Wilford Woodruff
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Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures, your delights, your…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind,…
— Edwin Markham
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Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.
— Edwin Markham
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You can be sad for others but you don't have to take on their pain.
— Leonard Jacobson
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There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
— Adi Shankara
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Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to…
— Adi Shankara
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The Baptist found him far too deep; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow; And the lean Levite went to sleep, And dreamed of tasting pork…
— Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must…
— Winston Churchill
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Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.
— William Wordsworth
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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
— William Wordsworth
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Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.
— William Shakespeare
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No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To…
— William Shakespeare
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Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly…
— William Blake
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell…
— Umberto Eco
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