sorrow Quotes

“It is also a duty owed to yourself, for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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“Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a long course, in order to breathe more freely. I am often tempted to open a vein, to procure for myself everlasting liberty.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

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“There is prodigious strength . . . in sorrow and despair.”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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“Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates. Once with his father, he is to himself of no more account.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

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“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“money couldn't keep shame and sorrow out of rich people's houses”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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“every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion

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