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• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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• Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

  Jean Paul

  Distance, Black, Looks

  "Hesperus", XIV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 733-736), 1922.

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• Sorrow is better than laughter; for, by the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better.

  Solomon

  Laughter, Heart, Character

  "A new translation of the Proverbs of Solomon, with notes by W. French and G. Skinner".

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• If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

  Moliere

  Courage, Grief, Grieving

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• Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

  William Blake

  Sympathy, Peace, Grief

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'On Another's Sorrow'

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• When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

  Jean Ingelow

  Sparrows, Cry, Break

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.19

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• I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!

  Robert Browning

  Learning, Grieving, Funeral

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• There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Useless, Hopeless

  Samuel Johnson (1816). “A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774”, p.152

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• Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

  Joni Mitchell

  Life, Grief, Easy

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• Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Silence, Endurance

  'Giotto's Tower' (1866)

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• Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

  Alan Paton

  Journey, Arriving, Cry The Beloved Country

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

  George Eliot

  Hope, Sadness, Learning

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.316, Xist Publishing

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• It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Mourn, Display

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• He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

  Chanakya

  Family, Education, Grief

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• People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

  Ann Landers

  Drinking, Swimming, Beer

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• Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Alas

  "The Natural Daughter". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, II. 3. 17, 1803.

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• Everyone is overridden by thoughts;
  that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.

  Rumi

  Heartache

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• This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

  Dante Alighieri

  Life, Soul, Melancholy

  "Inferno", III. 3 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

  Agatha Christie

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Broken Heart, Heartache, Soul

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• Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Grieving, Wind

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “South Moon Under”, p.70, Booklassic

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• My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Beautiful, Rain

  Robert Frost (2004). “A Boy's Will”, p.13, 1st World Publishing

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  Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Worry

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• Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Song, Fall, Night

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• Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

  Thomas Moore

  Sympathy, Death, Spiritual

  Thomas Moore (1861). “Poetical works”, p.304

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