1,508 Quotes About Sorrow

  • Author Henry B. Eyring
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    The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.

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  • Author William Faulkner
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    Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

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  • Author Edward Gibbon
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    If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

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  • Author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.

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  • Author Oliver Goldsmith
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    Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.

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  • Author Alice Hoffman
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    In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.

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