#sorrows

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

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. ↗

— Charles Reade

#deeds #earth #great #men #men and women

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#passions #shallow #sorrows #love

Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result ↗

— Anne Brontë

#happiness #love #marriage #reality-of-life #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

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

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

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#cold #every #every man #his #knows

Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights. ↗

— Francois de Malherbe

#delights #nights #our #sorrows #woven