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  • What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow? -- Thomas a Kempis
  • There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow. -- Jan Karon
  • All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. -- Isak Dinesen
  • Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves. -- Guy Finley
  • Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week. -- Basil Hume
  • My grandfather died when I was 12, but I remember the sorrow of my mother. Even now, she's an old lady, but when she speaks about her father, she looks young. A love like that is undefeated, you know? -- Claire Denis
  • How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • In general, I think people are worried about saying the wrong thing to any grieving person. On a very basic level, I think they're frightened of touching off tears or sorrow, as though someone tearing up at the mention of unhappy news would be the mentioner's fault. -- Elizabeth McCracken
  • The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters. Playful language. Joy and sorrow, pathos and elation. Episodes that dare to be different - to tell stories in silence or in song. Big themes and terrible choices. -- Virginia Postrel
  • I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy. -- Dolly Parton
  • I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others. -- Jim Cole
  • Though I continue to tell stories about Iraq, I sometimes fear this makes me a fraud. I feel guilty about the sorrow I feel because I know it is manufactured, and I feel guilty about the sorrow I do not feel because it is owed, it is the barest beginnings of what is owed to the fallen. -- Phil Klay
  • I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it. -- Kristin Armstrong
  • Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it. -- Martial
  • (About the movies:) Well, I git enough of sorrow. I like to git away from it. -- John Steinbeck
  • If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. -- Confucius
  • The writer's job is the job of a clown â?¦the clown who also talks about sorrow. -- Kenzaburo Oe
  • You don't really care about the trials of tomorrow, rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow -- Kid Cudi
  • even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man. -- Alice Hegan Rice
  • Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.I'd rather write about laughing than crying,For laughter makes men human, and courageous." -- Francois Rabelais
  • A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning. -- William Faulkner
  • There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail. -- George Eliot
  • It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it. -- Thomas a Kempis
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