#sorrow

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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There was a listlessness in his gait, as if he saw no reason for taking one step further, nor felt any desire to do so, but would have been glad, could he be glad of anything, to fling himself down at the root of the nearest tree, and lie there passive for evermore. The leaves might bestrew him, and the soil gradually accumulate and form a little hillock over his frame, no matter whether there were life in it or no. Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. ↗

— Emily Bronte

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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. ↗

— Lord Byron

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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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