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"This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks."
"I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that."
"The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow."
"We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied."
"Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it."
"Parting is such sweet sorrow"
"Grief is a species of idleness."
"Things are not as bad as it seems. The situations that cause us sorrow are the same ones that introduce us to the strength, power and wisdom that we truly are."
"Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand."
"All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is."
"Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen."
"Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows."
"Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!"
"Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry."
"There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow."
"Two in distressmake sorrow less."
"The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy."
"Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy."
"Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike."
"I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow."
