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Quotes About Sorrows

I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Every man has his secret sorrows.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.
~ zelazny roger ii
Surely each of us could sight an endless array of old scars and sorrows and painful memories that at this very moment still corrode the peace of someone's heart…
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
but what June had been thinking of while she searched for the right pieces, tried this one here and that one there, was how it was like a marriage, the accretion of details, of small joys and sorrows and catchphrases and hurts and rituals all adding up to a bigger picture eventually, even if it was impossible to see, while doing it, how it all fit.
~ Jenna Blum
The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.
~ Emanuel Lasker
Great griefs are antidotes / for lesser sorrows
~ Andrea Cohen
Sorrows are like thunder-clouds: in the distance they look black, over our heads, hardly gray.
~ Richter
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?
~ L.M. Montgomery
the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I see happiness for all of you .... Happiness for you all ... though, mind you, I reckon, you'll have your troubles and worries and sorrows too. They're bound to come ... and no house whether it's a palace or a little house of dreams can bar' em out. But they won't get the better of you if you face them together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.
~ L.M. Montgomery
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them
~ L.M. Montgomery
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?
~ L.M. Montgomery
Why do you borrow such sorrows when they are far away, and I am right here?
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much it matters what we achieve, how rare and unfair are our professional failures, how rife with misunderstandings are our relationships, how deep are our sorrows. Melodrama is individually always the order of the day.
~ Alain de Botton
If we read the new masterpiece of a man of genius, we are delighted to find in it those reflections of ours that we despised, joys and sorrows which we had repressed, a whole world of feeling we had scorned and whose value the book in which we discover them suddenly teaches us.
~ Alain de Botton
Buddha began to spread his philosophy, which propagated that all sorrows arise from desire; so to end sorrow, one must give up desire. The sanyas tradition, renunciation of material life, took root in a big way.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.
~ John Henry Jowett
Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.
~ Vladimir Mayakovsky
Ungrateful are those on this earthly road, Who do complain that life is made of tears, That happiness on earth one cannot find, That we are made of sorrows and of fears.
~ Frithjof Schuon
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
~ A. C. Benson
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
~ Anne Frank