I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.
Virgil
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Ann Landers
Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.
Anatole Broyard
Shared sorrow is half sorrow.
Danish Proverb
No one is exempt from grief.
Gregory Maguire
It shall never be said that my sorrow has hardened me toward others.
Glenway Wescott
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
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, Misery, I have drunk thy cup of sorrow to its dregs, but I am still a rebel.
Lucy Parsons
For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.
Orson Scott Card
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.
Abraham Lincoln
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