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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not ...

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When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But childr...

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Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do ge...

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I am alone. I am here. No one is watching me. In these hours of silence that I cherish, I talk to my...

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Íngrid BetancourtEven Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

They say my verse is sad: no wonder.Its narrow measure spansRue for eternity, and sorrowNot mine, bu...

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A. E. HousmanA Shropshire Lad

Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivat...

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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made ...

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

But the heavy stroke which most of all distresses me is my dear Mother. I cannot overcome my too sel...

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Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief i...

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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony beca...

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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, be...

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Thou hast Drawn laughter from A well of secret tears And thence so elvish it rings, -mocking And swe...

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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the diseas...

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I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it al...

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If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to enc...

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One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. ...

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You are never lost in sorrow, it seems to me, ever. You do know the way. In fact, you don't think th...

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She knew as well as anyone that the world could be a place of trial and sorrow, that there was injus...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain;...

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The truth is,’ replied Dantes, ‘that I am too happy for noisy mirth; ...joy takes a strange effect a...

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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to hi...

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Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

Sweet for a little even to fear, and sweet, O love, to lay down fear at love’s fair feet; Shall not ...

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Doing this was likewading and then throwing yourself into the lake for the first icy swim, in June. ...

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Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must lea...

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I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately with...

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But I am not allowed to forgetThe taste of the tears of yesterday.

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

I’m not weeping, I’m not complaining,Happiness is not for me.

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone....

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Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them...

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Azar NafisiReading Lolita in Tehran

Hang sorrow care'll kill a cat.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for...

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Men who are unhappy like men who sleep badly are always proud of the fact.

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of ...

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The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes...

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Brennan ManningAbba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a stat...

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1I smiled bitterly, a defeated man pitifully begging a God in whom he had never trusted.

What was the point in crying when there was no one to comfort you? And what was worse, when you coul...

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She had worn the Morgenstern ring since Jace had left it for her, and sometimes she wondered why. Di...

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The dead do not needaspirin orsorrow,I suppose.but they might needrain.not shoesbut a place towalk.n...

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Charles BukowskiThe Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems

I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard.

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Charles BukowskiWhat Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent te...

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We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of eart...

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Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.It is a true tale of gr...

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If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not t...

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The hopes that, in my own heart sown,And cherished by such sun and rain,As Joy and transient Sorrow ...

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A fool I was to sleep at noon, And wake when night is chilly Beneath the comfortless cold moon; A f...

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What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blosso...

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But after much thought, I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing more difficult in this w...

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I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and th...

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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their dar...

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Cormac McCarthyAll the Pretty Horses

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

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Cormac McCarthyAll the Pretty Horses

I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.

And I'm hoping there's some larger truth about suffering here, or at least my understanding of it - ...

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ur be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd bee...

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Dorothy ParkerThe Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

To acknowledge God is to fully accept the sorrow of the human condition.

Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon.She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him w...

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Deep in earth my love is lyingAnd I must weep alone.

How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace a simil...

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Am I kin to Sorrow,That so oftFalls the knocker of my door—Neither loud nor soft,But as long accusto...

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Sorrow like a ceaseless rainBeats upon my heart.People twist and scream in pain,—Dawn will find them...

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There is a certain animal vitality in most of us which carries us through any trouble but the absolu...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift f...

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Edward SaidReflections on Exile and Other Essays

She then thought the land enchanted into everlasting brightness and happiness; she fancied, then, th...

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Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

We were talking the other evening about the phrases one uses when trying to comfort someone who is i...

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When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but ...

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We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superfici...

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Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front

I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ...

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be norm...

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Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come," Tuek said. "Speed is a device of Shaitan. Cool y...

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In general I lacked principally the ability to provide even in the slightest detail for the real fut...

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Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow....

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Françoise SaganBonjour tristesse

What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to stre...

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There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere ...

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There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, ju...

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Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements the r...

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As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleas...

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But Mary had not come into the world to be sad or to help another to be sad. Sorrowful we may often ...

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Past tears are present strength.

...[T]wo of you can be no match for the three giants, I will find you, if I can, a third brother, wh...

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She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow wi...

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It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.

Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.