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

  Lord Byron

  Life, Wisdom, Tree

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

  Tarun J. Tejpal

  Lifestyle Choices, Poor, Choices

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• When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl Interrupted, Sound, Needs

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.48, Vintage

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• Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there.

  Giovanni Giocondo

  Believe, Angel, Hands

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• Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Light, He Man

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.46, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Grief, Taken

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• The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

  William Blake

  Sympathy, Artist, Laughing

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.202, Delphi Classics

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• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

  Washington Irving

  Mourning, Affliction, Cherish

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.270

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

  Confucius

  Happiness, Sympathy, Philosophical

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• Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.

  William Wordsworth

  Pain, Loss, May

  'The Solitary Reaper' from 'Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803'

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• Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Tree, Useless

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.830, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Useless, Hopeless

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.107

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• Every man has his secret sorrows.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sad, Depression, Being Happy

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• Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

  William Blake

  Joy

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.166, Psychology Press

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• My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.

  Jean-Francois Ducis

  Virtue, Overwhelming, Left

  "Hamlet". Book by Jean-Francois Ducis, 1769.

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• Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Heart, Sadness

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• God knows the feelings in every human heart. He can soften sorrow and lead when there seems to be no light. Prayer can give guidance and confidence. It reminds us that no one need be alone in this world. If all else fails, remember, God and one other person can be a family.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Prayer, Failure, Heart

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Inspirational Love, Heart

  Khalil Gibran, “Joy And Sorrow Chapter VIII”

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• Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Race, Tears, World

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• He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.

  Kedar Joshi

  Heart, Eye, Men

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• Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  May, Faces, Sinai

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• Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Scar, Persons, Spares

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.723, St. Martin's Griffin

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• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

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