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A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

All a person does in a moment of suffering is to suffer. There is not room for anything else.

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

All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

"All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity.

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.

All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; Every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.

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

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

All sorrows are less with bread.

All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is.

All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.

All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.

Amidst sorrows, the only thing that enlivens us is optimistic faith. Never lose that faith.

A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.

And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.

A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

And he who has dwelt with his heart alone, Hears all the music in friendship's tone. So better and better I comprehend How sorrow ever would be our friend.

And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.

. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wild—they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.

And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.

And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.

Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.

Anger can try to break your heart, but sorrow is what will. What can. What does.

A person is only complete when she has a true friend to understand her, to share all her passions and sorrows with, and to stand by her throughout her life.

Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed. There are sorrows, and they should be passed over briefly.

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

A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.

A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long, since he does not contribute to the benefit of his brethren, he will become a danger and a sorrow to them. Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us that in prayer alone can we be forearmed against our lesser sorrows; that strength to bear flows into the heart that is opened in supplication; and that a sorrow which we are made able to endure is more truly conquered than a sorrow which we avoid

A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.

As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure.

Before We end our pilgrimage, 'tis fit that we Should leave corruption, and foul sin, behind us, But with wash'd feet and hands, the heathens dar' not Enter their profane temples; and for me To hope my passage to eternity Can be made easy, till I have shook off The burthen of my sins in free confession, Aided with sorrow, and repentance for them, Is against reason.

At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.

Autumn rain, autumn wind, they make one die of sorrow.

Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.

Be gone, sorrow, sickness, wheelchairs, and cancer! Enough of you, screams of fear and nights of horror! Death, you die! Life, you reign!