#sorrows

Most of us believe we can spot a drowning person when we see one. But we always make the mistake of thinking that drowning only involves what. believe it or not, you have missed quite a number of drowned and drowning people. Some of us are thought to save some one drowning in water, most of us can spot that too, but none of us has been thought to see the other kinds of drowners, nor how to save them. ↗

— chioma Nkachukwu

#drowners #drowning #drowning-one-s-sorrows #drowning-silence-poetry #find-self

[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#eyes #grief #hope #hopelessness #light

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#despair #fury #give #i #indulge

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

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#does #ears #eyes #feet #hands

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. ↗

— Josh Billings

#anticipating #enjoy #happen #his way #manage

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

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him. ↗

— Arthur Hugh Clough

#almost #disease #every #god #him

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#everywhere #flash #joy #life #our