Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim

All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow.

O God, take all our sorrows and use them to show us the nature of our joy.

The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps.

... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.

Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together.

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.

Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.

There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows

Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire.

As much sorrow and grief as came from 9/11, there have also come positives.

Indeed, the opposite of joy is not sorrow. The opposite of joy is unbelief.

A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.

Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Come all ye that pass by, and see if there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow.

Happiness in nature is a double happiness; sorrow in nature is a half sorrow!

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.

All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow.

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.

... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.

The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.

So long as you are in this world, be not surprised at the existence of sorrows.

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