Acquisition Quote by Milarepa

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish,…

— Russell M. Nelson

“Every road leads to sorrow. All aspects that make life beautiful – friendship, love, art, and truth – will end. All aspects that make…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built Out of longing great wonders have been willed”

— Nick Cave

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

Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back…

— Lord Byron

We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that…

— Marcel Proust

The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and final portions;…

— Anais Nin

In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually…

— Alexis Carrel

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

— Gautama Buddha

“Things, relationship, and ideas are so transparently impermanent, we are ever made unhappy by them...Things are impermanent, they wear out and are lost; relationship…

— J Krishnamurti

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

— Haruki Murakami