I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

Virgil

To revive sorrow is cruel.

Sophocles

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Sophocles

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Ann Landers

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

Confucius

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

Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is.

Yoda

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