Seneca the Younger Quotes About Sorrow

• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Soul, Ignorant

• Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Real, Exercise, Men

• Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

  Seneca the Younger

  Love, Sorrow, Speak

• I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fate, Men, Destiny

• As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

  Seneca the Younger

  Laughter, Fate, Hands

• He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.

  Seneca the Younger

  Grieving, Sorrow, Causes

• Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Sorrow, Debt

• It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sweet, Grief, Solitude

• Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

  Seneca the Younger

  Grief, Light, Sorrow

• No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fall, Sorrow, Emotion

• The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

  Seneca the Younger

  Grief, Men, Sorrow

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