Quotes of: Sorrows Keyword

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

Felix Dennis

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Mark Twain

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

Peter S. Beagle

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

David Hume

Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.

Francois de Malherbe

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

George William Curtis

God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

Johann Sebastian Bach

There is no greater sorrow Than to recall a happy time When miserable.

Dante Alighieri

Claudius: When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.

Hamlet

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Greta Garbo

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Henry Ward Beecher

Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Washington Irving

When sorrow knocks at your door, tell it you're busy finding happiness.

Saru Singhal

Your tears of sorrow today will bring bliss in the future....

Life

Partially undermining the manufacturer's ability to assert that its work constituted a meaningful contribution to mankind was the frivolous way in which it went about marketing its products. Grief was the only rational response to the news that an em...

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the couch, he remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him [as a career counselor] was the idea that they ough...

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

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

Clippings from My Notebook