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• No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Healing, Grieving

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.

  Joseph Addison

  Mean, Men, Affliction

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.656

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• Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Clouds, Heaven, Storm

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.92

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• With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Strength, Fidelity, Endure

  Frances Sargent Osgood (1838). “A wreath of wild flowers from New England”, p.221

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• As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Remembrance, Bitter, Should

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.187, Delphi Classics

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• There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Giving, Flavor, Acid

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• We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Joy, Picks

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• The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty in form as untrue and broken as itself.

  Thomas Binney

  Dark, Broken, Soul

  Thomas Binney (1853). “Is it Possible to Make the Best of Both Worlds?: A Book for Young Men”, p.129

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

  Edith Wharton

  Age, Aging, Old Age

  1934 A Backward Glance, 'A First Word'.

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• Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

  Leigh Hunt

  Helping Others, Bears, Failing

  Leigh Hunt (1853). “The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty”, p.27

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• Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Evil

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1891). “Critical and literary”

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• Social sorrow loses half its pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Half, Social

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.347

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• Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Trouble, This Life

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.118, Wordsworth Editions

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• Great sorrows have no leisure to complain:
  Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain.

  William Goffe

  Grief, Complaining, Leisure

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• To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise.

  Thomas Gray

  Happiness, Wise, Pain

  'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College' (1747) l. 91

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• Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

  Laozi

  Learning, Abandon

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• Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.

  Bill Vaughan

  Character, Fire, Heaven

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• How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.

  John Keats

  Beautiful, Self, Made

  John Keats (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.284

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• When you are sorrowful, look again.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Sad, Joy, Impossible

  'War and Peace' (1868-9) bk. 15, ch. 1

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• A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Crowns, Remember

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 75.

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• Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.

  Henry James

  Strong, Hard Times, May

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• Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

  Philip James Bailey

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.405

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• The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.

  John Owen

  Father, Believe, Love You

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• Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

  Meister Eckhart

  Sympathy, Depression, Light

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