"There is not grief that does not speak."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on grief
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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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"Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us."

Tyler, Steven on sorrow   

"There is something in sorrow more akin to the course of human affairs than joy."

Fitzhugh, C. on sorrow   

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

Irving, Washington on sorrow   

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"Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings."

Rowe, Nicholas on guilt   

"We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on sorrow
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"Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation."

Macaulay, J. C. on pity
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"Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will--tomorrow!"

Pitzer, Gloria on procrastination
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"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."

Byron, Lord on sorrow
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"And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him."

Clough, Arthur Hugh on sorrow
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"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"

Blake, William on sympathy   

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on forgiveness
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"I hold it true, whateer befall;I feel it, when I sorrow most;Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all. "

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"There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved."

Johnson, Samuel on sorrow   

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"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be nor more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. [Revelation]"

Bible on pain
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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

Christie, Agatha on
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"The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more."

Dhammapada on freedom
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"The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together."

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

Shakespeare, William on sorrow   

"Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past."

Percy, Walker on grief
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"All things grow with time -- except grief."

Proverb, Jewish on grief
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"Tears are the silent language of grief."

Voltaire on tears
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"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."

Irving, Washington on tears
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"One often calms one's grief by recounting it."

Corneille, Pierre on grief
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"Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on melancholy
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"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

Patton, George S. on soldier
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"But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of."

Byron, Lord on hope
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"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired."

Erikson, Erik H. on hope
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"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on hope
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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Havel, Vaclav on hope
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"Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair."

Wiesel, Elie on despair
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"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."

Eliot, George on doubt
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"The person who lives by hope will die by despair."

Proverb, Italian on despair
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"O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?"

Campbell, Thomas on science   

"There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow."

Wharton, Edith on age and aging   

"Where there is sorrow there is holy ground."

Wilde, Oscar on sorrow
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"The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]"

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