Sorrow Quotes

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Playwright, Poet

“So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. But they are creul tears. This sorrow's heavenly; it strikes where it doth love.”

Sweet Tears Sorrow

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William Shakespeare

Playwright, Poet

“That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.”

Needs Sorrow Forgiveness

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Winston Churchill

Politician, Writer, Historian

“Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.”

Sacrifice Sorrow

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Yoko Ono

Artist, Musician, Activist

“I saw sorrow turning into clarity.”

Saws Sorrow

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William Shakespeare

Playwright, Poet

“When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.”

Love Sorrow

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet, Novelist

“Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you.”

Suffering Grief

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Victor Hugo

Novelist, Poet

“Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.”

Sorrow Youth

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William Shakespeare

Playwright, Poet

“This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.”

Doe Chance Sorrow

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William Wordsworth

Poet

“In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.”

Heaven Sadness Sorrow

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet, Novelist

“Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived: the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere.”

Sorrow Arrows Abiding

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.”

Feels Secret Sorrow

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Vincent Van Gogh

Painter

“There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.”

Feelings Wish Sorrow

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