#sorrow

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. ↗

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#beautiful #enduring #feel #get #guilty

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#inherit #must #sorrow #tribulation #war

Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live. Our circle will be small, but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune. And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#love #misfortune #sorrow #death

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow. ↗

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

#believe #blood #caused #counts #great

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

#build #cries #forth #leaves #old

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#greater #happiness #misery #recall #sorrow

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it. ↗