#sorrow

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. ↗

— Ann Landers

#drink #drown #how #knows #people

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us. ↗

— Walter Pater

#comes #disinterested #ecstasy #enthusiastic #forms

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. ↗

— Sophocles

#cause #keenest #our #ourselves #recognize

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

#buddhism #catholic #could #mankind #masses

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#almost #other #our #out #people

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#few #good #however #income #poignant

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies. ↗

— Sophocles

#bred #children #except #furnishes #gives

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#acting #comedy #express #feelings #fit

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#inside #joys #never #sorrows #tell

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#good #good cheer #liar #promises #saloon