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Sorrow

«I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.»
Author: Frida Kahlo | About: Alcohol, Sorrow
«Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend, Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behind, With whips and stings»
Author: Nicholas Rowe | About: Guilt, Sorrow | Keywords: avenges, avenging, fiend, fiends, The Fiend, whips
«Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.»
«If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.»
«If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.»
«If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.»
Author: Confucius | About: Sorrow | Keywords: at hand, distant
«In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast»
«He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Joy, Sorrow | Keywords: looked, sorrow
«How soon my sorrow hath destroyed my face»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Sorrow | Keywords: destroyed
«Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.»

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