Delicacy Quote by Sophie Swetchine

Social sorrow loses half its pain.

— Samuel Johnson

sorrow must not be cultivated: it is a poor lifestyle choice.

— Tarun J. Tejpal

Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

— Mason Cooley

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

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

— Oscar Wilde

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.

— Lady Caroline Lamb

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

— Stephen King

Sorrow is sometimes what awakens us.

— Naz

There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only…

— Elizabeth Bowen