Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates.
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.
Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
The busy have no time for tears.
I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But, oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me.
Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns.
All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.
Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat.
To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me, and so kind.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds - in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
The deeper the sorrow, the less tongue hath it.
Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her - I found more joy in sorrow Than you could find in joy.
More in sorrow than in anger.
There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.
She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.
