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"Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und."
"Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear."
"Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy."
"He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy."
"I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; I am the last gift of the living to the dead; I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow."
"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow."
"When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene."
"As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow."
"To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me, and so kind."
"I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me."
"Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts."
"Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing."
"Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow."
"I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process."
"Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active."
"We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last."
"The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow."
"Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console."
"Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow."
"Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead us nearer heaven."
