"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on absence
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"One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad."

Hubbard, Elbert on joy
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"Sorrow makes us children again."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on sorrow
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"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 no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few."

Mcmurtry, Larry on sorrow
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"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on sorrow   

"The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it."

Talmud, The on sorrow   

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

Shakespeare, William on sorrow   

"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."

Confucius on sorrow
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"The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal -- every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open -- this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude."

Irving, Washington on bereavement
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"Grief is only the memory of widowed affections."

Martineau, James on grief
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"The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water."

Ionesco, Eugene on memory
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"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."

Dante Alighieri on memory
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