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You will be a great queen when you come back, you know. And someday you'll love me the way you love your wolf.

Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying -- valiantly, fruitlessly -- to eradicate.

Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

Acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh pervails completely over the spirit. You don't just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don't care, and you don't care that you don't care.

A cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away.

A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the tavern and alehouse benefactor, the beggar's companion, the constable's trouble, his wife's woe, his children's sorrow, his neighbours scoff, his own shame.

A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast Sorrow was there The sweet cheat gone.

A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.

Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.

A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.

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

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

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 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 sorrows are less with bread.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.