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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.

William Shakespeare

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Greta Garbo

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Lydia M. Child

In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.

Michael Bruce

The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrows and double our joys.

Barry C. Forbes

For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Gustave Flaubert

Everyone has some sort of outlet which they use to express their joys, sorrows and frustrations. Singing provides that outlet for me.

Kathleen Schaben

Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.

Sean O'Casey

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

Frida Kahlo

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Despite the litany of the sorrows of the city, we must believe in the ability of man to respond to the problems of his environment.

Carl Stokes

The drug that heals our sorrows forgetfulness.

Appianus

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

Love's boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a list of mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Courage is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that th.

Dorothy Thompson

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.

Jim Cole

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

The young feel sorrows much more sharply that the old; the latter are nearer the safety net.

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. There is a land of pure delight, Beyond the Jordan's flood, Where saints, apparelled all in white, Fling back the critic's mud. And as he legs it through the skies, His pelt a sable hue, He sorrows sore to recognize The missiles that he threw. .

Ambrose Bierce

The murmur of the mourning ghost / That keeps the shadowy kine, / `O Keith of Ravelston,/ The sorrows of thy line!'

Sidney Thompson Dobell

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.

Saint Augustine

One of the greatest sorrows of human exisence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

Dean Koontz

But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!

George Arnold

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.

The Dhammapada

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfilment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadnes.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

Peter S. Beagle

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Bible

Its hard because you went through camp with these guys and you can't be with them when you win, you can't share the sorrows of losing.

Gerald Hayes

I used to go drink to drown my sorrows and I used to go drink to celebrate. It's not really a way to be a big league player.

Rich Gedman

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.

Emile Durkheim

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

Zora Neale Hurston