Sorrow Quotes

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Jane Austen

Novelist

“There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.”

May Sorrow Employment

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Hermann Hesse

Novelist, Poet

“Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.”

Suffering Ends Sorrow

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JA

Founding Father, Politician

“Genius is sorrow's child.”

Children Genius

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JP

Writer

“Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.”

Joy Wings

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Novelist, Philosopher

“Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.”

Heart Wells Sorrow

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Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

Novelist, Poet

“…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.”

Sweet Silence

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Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

Poet, Philosopher

“No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.”

Suffering Sorrow

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EM

Poet, Novelist

“Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.”

Thinking Lying Sorrow

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ES

Author

“That was the one thing about the rain that likened it to sorrow: You did your best to remain untouched, safe and dry, but if and when you failed, there came a point in which you started seeing the problem less in terms of drops than as an incessant gush, and thereby you decide you might as well get drenched.”

Rain Sorrow Ifs And

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Alexandre Dumas-fils

Alexandre Dumas-fils

Playwright, Novelist

“We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal.”

Done Sorrow Wicked

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Anne Lamott

Author, Essayist

“I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.”

Crazy Sorrow Ordinary

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Aeschylus

Playwright

“Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.”

Ends Sorrow Length

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