#sorrow

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

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#hearts #our #own #sole #sorrows

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

#choose #cure #joy #joyfully #live

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#sorrow #time #funny

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#illusory #joy #more #often #sorrow

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations. ↗

— John Banville

#death #grief #immortality #life-goes-on #loss

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#any #capable #good #mind #real

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin. ↗

— John Webster

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Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#develop #grieves #our #sorrows #trials

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#day #dream #dreary #gloom #happy

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

— Victor Hugo

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