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“If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.”
William Allen White
“He that is thy friend indeed,He will help thee in thy need:If thou sorrow, he will weep;If thou wake, he cannot sleep:Thus of every grief in heartHe with thee does bear a part.These are certain signs to knowFaithful friend from flattering foe.”
William Shakespeare
“We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.”
Confucius
“Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.”
Dorothy Parker
“Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still”
Lord Byron
“On the sands of life sorrow treads heavily, and leaves a print time cannot wash away.”
Henry Neele
“Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
Victor Hugo
“Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us”
Meister Eckhart
