#sorrows

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others. ↗

— Jim Cole

#been #defeats #draw #experiences #honest

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

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#become #colors #day #every #every day

Holy men tell us life is a mystery. They embrace that concept happily. But some mysteries bite and bark and come to get you in the dark. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#dean-koontz #mysteries #the-book-of-counted-sorrows #life

All sorrows can be born if you put them in a story or tell a story about them. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#stories #storytelling #storytelling

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#almost #other #our #out #people

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#few #good #however #income #poignant

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#inspiration #life #problems #sorrows #struggles

When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare