#sorrow

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. ↗

— George Eliot

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If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for? ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#nothing #pain #people #sorrow

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. ↗

— Hesiod

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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

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Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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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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