I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
One often calms one’s grief by recounting it.
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.
I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I’m better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don’t.
