#sorrow

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#cabin #children #cold #comes #dawns

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#american #classic #desire #felt #form

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. ↗

— Alexandre Vinet

#courage #resignation #sorrow

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#barb #childhood #die #earliest #heart

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. ↗

— Saadi

#linked #rose #sorrow #thorn #together

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy. ↗

— George William Russell

#easier #forgive #forgive me #found #give me

Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#being #burden #closest #collaborators #decisions

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy. ↗

— Franz Schubert

#joy #nobody #sorrow #understands

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#good night #i #morrow #night #parting

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#battalions #come #single #sorrows #spies