• Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.2 · 11 votes · 151 reads

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• Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.4 · 22 votes · 193 reads

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• Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.6 · 64 votes · 36 reads

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• Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

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  Dorothy Parker

  WriterAmerican1893 · 19th century

  4.2 · 62 votes · 155 reads

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• Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 24 votes · 87 reads

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• Sorrow makes us children again.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.4 · 13 votes · 189 reads

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• Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  3.8 · 46 votes · 154 reads

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• The busy have no time for tears.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.1 · 54 votes · 178 reads

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• The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.7 · 26 votes · 132 reads

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• The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  3.4 · 34 votes · 171 reads

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• The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  4.1 · 56 votes · 181 reads

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• There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.6 · 43 votes · 196 reads

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• There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  5.0 · 32 votes · 74 reads

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• To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  4.5 · 64 votes · 156 reads

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

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.4 · 24 votes · 4 reads

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• We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 36 votes · 184 reads

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• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.9 · 14 votes · 96 reads

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• Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.9 · 19 votes · 36 reads

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• With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.1 · 43 votes · 105 reads

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• You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.9 · 55 votes · 86 reads

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