Capacity Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett

Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

— Samuel Johnson

Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.

— Laura Schlessinger

Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when…

— Samuel Johnson

People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going…

— Anonymous

Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also…

— Emily Giffin

Sorrow has its life just like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left behind to…

— Anne Holm

People hold onto the past because something in their past made them really happy or something from their past is still making them miserable

— Anonymous

But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows down, too…

— Eric G. Wilson

“Usually, people... are unable to accept the reality of future sorrow, of a new day different from our past.”

— Hotaru Odagiri

“The dial on the wheel of sorrow eventually points to each of us. At one time or another, everyone must experience sorrow. No one…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Things are not as bad as it seems. The situations that cause us sorrow are the same ones that introduce us to the strength,…

— Robin Sharma