“I may have grown more attentive to the news and more alive to the world history and world-sorrow behind it.”
Seamus Heaney
“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
“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
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility”
“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
“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