#sorrows

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

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

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

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. ↗

— Stefan Kanfer

#away #cannot #explained #grief #life