sorrow Quotes

“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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“These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.”

― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

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“There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery, and that thy Teacher knows.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

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“Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, steal me awhile from mine own company.”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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“Tragic phrases comfort the heart.... Without them, sorrow would be too heavy for men to bear.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.”

― William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

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“Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!”

― William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

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“If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for, he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently,...”

― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

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“Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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