#sorrow

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

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#accomplished #daily #go #great #laboriously

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#bear #does #fruit #god #grow

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. ↗

— David Hume

#hope #joy #poverty #propensity #real

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

I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#compassion #death #empathy #mourning #objectivity

That's the thing about pain," Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. "It demands to be felt ↗

— John Green

#pain

Death. What a brief word for the extinguishing of life. To be no more. To have days cut off and at their end. To never again..........anything. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#end #finality #grief #richelle #richelle-goodrich

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

— Dante Alighieri

#greater #happiness #misery #recall #sorrow