“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”
Ann Landers
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming in the joys of night;Sleep, sleep; in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.”
William Blake
“People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.”
Stendhal
“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
“Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.”
Irish Proverb