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

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow..

The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and ….

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her nat….

I am persuaded ... that both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position..

The truly beneficent mind looks upon every child of sorrow as their relation, and entitled to their assistance..

That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying..

We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going..

…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow..

Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow..

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy..

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart..

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps..

Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with ….

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson..

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow..

Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge..

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console..

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin..

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own..

A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for u….