Sorrow Quotes

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There are some men above grief and some men below it. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Victor Hugo

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

C. Fitzhugh

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

Lord Byron

Silence is medication for sorrow.

Arabian Proverb

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

Dirk Benedict

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

Confucius

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Jean Paul Richter

The busy have no time for tears. 

Lord Byron

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

William Shakespeare

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. 

Mark Twain

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

Samuel Johnson

Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

Lao Tzu

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

Leon Bloy

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

Bernard Barton

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

Ovid

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