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Poet

“Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”

Pain Expression Sorrow

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Poet, Novelist

“"There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful," Who ne'er said, "God be praised."”

Eye School Sorrow

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Abby May Alcott

Author

“Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?”

Selfish Sorrow

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Abby May Alcott

Author

“Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.”

Giving Flower

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Petrarch

Poet, Scholar

“Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.”

Grief Sorrow Incredibles

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Abraham Lincoln

Political Leader

“We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.”

Heart Sorrow

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Euripides

Playwright

“You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.”

Fate Sorrow

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Emily Dickinson

Poet

“To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.”

Fighting Sorrow Bravery

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Emily Bronte

Poet, Novelist

“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.”

People Mind Sorrow

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Eminem

Rapper, songwriter, record producer

“I just can't sit back and wallow, In my own sorrow, but I know one fact: I'll be one tough act to follow.”

Facts Sorrow Tough

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Ernest Hemingway

Novelist

“There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.”

Writing Progress Sorrow

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Edward Abbey

Author, Environmentalist

“A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.”

Beautiful Mother Sorrow

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