Best sorrow & literature Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.”

Past Life Is Joy Literature Our Lives Sorrow Flash Woven Radiant

“Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.”

Literature Sorrow Comfort Blessing Prove Seasons Sickness

Book:Memorials: In 2 Vol

Source: Memorials: In 2 Vol

“In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.”

Heart Literature Sorrow And Love Madness Shame Frenzy

Author:Virgil

“Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.”

Writing Joy Literature Sorrow Comfort Add Console

Book:Letters and Panegyricus

Source: Letters and Panegyricus

“Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.”

Joy Literature Bears Amount Sorrow Harder Excess

Book:Letters of Two Brides

Source: Letters of Two Brides

“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”

Love Heart Literature Forget Sorrow Broken Heart Ache

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.”

Ifs Men Enough Character Pain Humanity Evil Literature Common Grief Virtue Conditions Subjects Honesty Integrity Sorrow Treatment Calamity Aggravation Pain And Sorrow Aggravating

Book:The Spectator, no. 1-314

Source: The Spectator, no. 1-314

“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.”

Soul Literature Nature Break Air Sorrow Mountain Storm Break Up Great Souls

Author:Jean Paul

“For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.”

Heart Suffering Hate Literature Vision Seeing Sorrow Disease Hatred Burden Poison

Author:Aeschylus

“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.”

Humans Humor Happiness Joy Literature Heaven Secret Source Sorrow Pathetic Equator

Author:Mark Twain

“It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.”

Should Joy Spirit Literature Alive Impossible Sorrow Active Cease Dust Organized Restless Joys And Sorrows Restless Spirit

Book:Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Source: Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

“Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.”

Knows World Needs Doe I Can Faces Literature Answers Sorrow Hypocrisy Fake People Prozac Prozac Nation Happy Face

Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”

“The busy have no time for tears.”

Time Literature Tears Sorrow Busy Tears Of Sorrow

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to the very soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.”

People Thinking Doe Soul Joy Hate Literature Sorrow Conversation Importance I Hate My Soul Relate Bores Seriousness Joys And Sorrows

Author:Franz Kafka

“exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement.”

Source: Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays

“And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.”

World Heart Art Literature Fun Broken Sorrow Tales Popular Literature

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.”

Doe Age Literature Wish Causes Marriage Sorrow Old Age Wedding Sisterhood Fleeing

Author:Hesiod

“There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.”

World Literature Sorrow Goodness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

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