#sorrow

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#any #bear #excess #harder #joy

Genius is sorrow's child. ↗

— John Adams

#genius #sorrow

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#aggravating #another #calamity #common #condition

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. ↗

— William Davenant

#knowledge #safe #since #sorrow #spy

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? ↗

— William Blake

#grief #i #i see #kind #relief

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. ↗

— William Blake

#excessive #joy #laughs #sorrow #weeps

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before! ↗

— John Dryden

#busy #busy person #concealed #fate #find

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#beer #brandy #called #cares #condition

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own. ↗

— Thomas Campbell

#heart #never #own #proud #sorrow

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy. ↗

— Chanakya

#attached #attachment #be happy #discard #experiences