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Joy’s recollection is no longer joy,
While Sorrow’s memory is a sorrow still.
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— Lord Byron

I am weary of the world; life is weary of me. My day is gone into twillight, and I don’t think it worth the expense of candles.
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— Charles Lamb

Source: Letter to Bernard Barton - 1824

That thorny path, those stormy skies,
Have drawn our spirits nearer;
And rendered us, by sorrow’s ties,
Each to the other dearer.
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— Bernard Barton

Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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— Samuel Johnson

It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
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— Mark Twain

The busy have no time for tears.
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— Lord Byron

Silence is medication for sorrow.
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— Arabian Proverb

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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— Lord Byron

There is something in sorrow more akin to the course of human affairs than joy.
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— C. Fitzhugh

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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— Victor Hugo

Shared sorrow is half sorrow.
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— Danish Proverb

He who has not looked on sorrow will never see joy.
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— Khalil Gibran

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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— Seneca

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
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— Steven Tyler

A sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
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— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
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— Meister Eckhart

Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends.
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— African Proverb

The sorrowful dislike the happy, and the happy dislike the sorrowful.
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— Horace

Sorrow makes us all children again.
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— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
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— Soren Kierkegaard

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair
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— Chinese Proverb

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
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— J. H. Vincent

Don’t let your sorrow come higher than your knees
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— Swedish Proverb

Sorrow makes men sincere.
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— Henry Ward Beecher

There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
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— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
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— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The one who loves you will make you weep.
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— Argentine Proverb

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Lord Byron

Charles Lamb

Bernard Barton

Samuel Johnson

Mark Twain

Arabian Proverb