#sorrows

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#almost #other #our #out #people

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#had #having #me #parents #solace

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

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#accomplished #daily #go #great #laboriously

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. ↗

— Jean Paul

#air #around #beneath #break #gather

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ↗

— Jean Paul

#distance #gray #heads #like #look

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#american #classic #desire #felt #form

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#children #feeds #his #home #loves

We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much it matters what we achieve, how rare and unfair are our professional failures, how rife with misunderstandings are our relationships, how deep are our sorrows. Melodrama is individually always the order of the day. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#melodrama #relationships #self #significance #sorrows