#sorrow

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. ↗

— Alexandre Vinet

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Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy. ↗

— Franz Schubert

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Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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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. ↗

— Freya Stark

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What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another! ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow. ↗

— John Strachan

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