#sorrow

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#living-life #sorrows #business

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#sorrow #love

Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origins in the ecstasies which might have been. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe's "Berenice"

#contemplative #edgar-allan-poe #inspirational #interesting #philosophical

He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part. ↗

— Richard Barnfield

#cannot #doth #every #friend #grief

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#goes #great #greatness #half #heroes

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#life #losses #misfortunes #sorrows #worst

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them. ↗

— Thomas Hooker

#discerned #godly #graces #least #may

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair. ↗

— Robert Greene

#despair #hates #sorrow #waste #woe

Love's boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a list of mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains. ↗

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

#been #boat #draw #everyday #hurts

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. ↗

— Edward Moore

#long #now #roses #sorrow #summer