“The 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”
Helen Keller
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow”
Seneca
“Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.”
Freya Stark
“Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming in the joys of night;Sleep, sleep; in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.”
William Blake
“If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.”
Samuel Butler
“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.”
Henry Louis Mencken
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