Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
Excess of happiness and excess of sorrow, both are hazardous. Emotions require a balanced diet too.
There is enough heartache and sorrow in this life without our adding to it through our own stubbornness, bitterness, and resentment.
Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will--tomorrow
'SNL' after-parties are sort of like a time to celebrate your successes and drown your sorrows, depending on how the show went for you.
There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.
Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
With your laugh my sorrows are relieved, with your love I forget about my problems, and by your side everything is better.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
The greatest sorrow in the life of a peasant is that his donkey is lost. And the greatest happiness is that he finds it back.
If you seek happiness through someone else's perspective, you might as well get comfortable in sorrow.
I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful desolation came upon her face that I perceived she was one of those creatures that are not the playthings of Time. For her he had died...
Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where we have gone and quite what we have amounted to.... ...
Onszelf beschouwen als het middelpunt van het heelal, de huidige tijd als het hoogtepunt van de geschiedenis en onze geplande vergaderingen als gebeurtenissen van het grootst mogelijke gewicht, voorbijgaan aan de lessen die begraafplaatsen ons leren,...
At Night on the High Seas At night, when the sea cradles me And the pale star gleam Lies down on its broad waves, Then I free myself wholly From all activity and all the love And stand silent and breathe purely, Alone, alone cradled by the sea That l...
Many a one has been comforted in their sorrow by seeing a good dish come upon the table.
But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.
