Quotes with sorrows

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• The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.

  George Borrow
  English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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• The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

  Stephen Leacock
  Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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• The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

  Dhammapada
  collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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• The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

  Arthur Christopher Benson
  English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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• There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

  Robert Frost
  American poet (1874 - 1963)
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• There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

  Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

  Roland Barthes
  French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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• Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  American poet (1807 - 1882)
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• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

  Edmund Burke
  English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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• We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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• What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

  St. Augustine of Hippo
  Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

  Bhagavad Gita
  Indian Hindu storybook
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Subjects in these quotes:

• anticipating
• consolations
• performance
• andromaque
• confidants
• battalions

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