#sorrow

Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow. ↗

— Karl Amadeus Hartmann

#sorrow #stream #unending

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. ↗

— David Hume

#death #endears #friend #his #influence

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week. ↗

— Basil Hume

#certain #death #each #fact #in fact

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#also #created #future #future generations #generations

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. ↗

— Stefan Kanfer

#away #cannot #explained #grief #life

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. ↗

— Fay Weldon

#old #old age #only #sorrow #such

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#go #joy #looking #same #sorrow

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#joy #often #sorrow #source

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#book #brink #composed #conceived #constructed

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#does #face #happy #happy face #hypocrisy