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• Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it.
  For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.

  Rumi

  Hands, Pearls, Be Kind

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• What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Fashion, Men, Doe

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.37, 谷月社

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• Sing away sorrow, cast away care.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Care, Sin, Cast Away

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Thomas Roscoe (1833). “The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote”, p.184

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• We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and hasten to make them ours so far as we may. Life in a small town is like a layer cake. One gets the whole of it, frosted top, lemon filling and all.

  Laura E. Richards

  Cake, Joy, May

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• That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.

  Saadi

  Joy, Harbinger

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• A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.

  Donna Tartt

  Heart, People, Want

  Donna Tartt (2013). “The Goldfinch”, p.575, Hachette UK

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

  Dirk Benedict

  Sympathy, Courage, Condolences

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• We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow.

  Marcel Proust

  Love Is, Thinking, Suffering

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.1981, Jester House Publishing

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• Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than men in steel with bloody purposes. Death is not dreadful; 'tis the dread of death— We die whene'er we think of it!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Thinking, Steel

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• I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.

  Sara Teasdale

  Heart, Joy, Talk To Me

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• We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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• There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

  Alfred Adler

  Wells

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• Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

  Emile Durkheim

  Sad, World, Doe

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• Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, I Miss You, Good Night

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 176

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• To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.

  Madame de Stael

  Sadness, Yield

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• To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.

  George Eliot

  Despair, Young

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

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• We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Children, Pain, Real

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• T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Prayer, Heart, Dark

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• Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

  George MacDonald

  Doors, White, Joy

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• Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Mankind, Let Me

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith ; The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale”, p.8

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• Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow
  Part equally among us; storms divided,
  Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.

  John Heywood

  Storm, Comfort, Rage

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• If there is an evil in this world, it is sorrow and heaviness of heart. The loss of goods, of health, of coronets and mitres, is only evil as they occasion sorrow; take that out, the rest is fancy, and dwelleth only in the head of man.

  Laurence Sterne

  Heart, Loss, Men

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)”, p.405, Delphi Classics

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• The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Heart, Depth, Comfort

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• To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Grieving, Evil

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume III: 1777-1781”, p.128, Princeton University Press

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• It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Years, People

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.85, Oxford University Press on Demand

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