Quotes with sorrow

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  • Joni Mitchell Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell.
    Joni Mitchell
    Canadian singer-songwriter (1943 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • James Russell Lowell Sorrow is the great idealizer.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Samuel Johnson Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Dorothy Parker Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bede Jarrett Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.
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  • Bai Juyi That we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,
    And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree.
    Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,
    While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.
    The Song of Long Sorrow
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  • William Blake The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
    Proverbs of hell
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Augustus William Hare The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Barbara Sher The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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  • Buddha The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Larry Mcmurtry The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings - crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.
    Larry Mcmurtry
    American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (1936 - )
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  • Washington Irving The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • William Cowper The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Barry Cornwall The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, one by one, little distinguishable from each other. But when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and sorrow.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Saadi The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Mark Twain The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Washington Irving The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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