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“The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.”

Men Grief He Man Sorrow Sacred Misery Triumph Wretched Admirable Brows

Author:Seneca the Younger

“So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It is not because the wretched thing is so ugly and silly and useless that I ask you to cast it from you; it is much more because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them; look through them and see all that has gone to their fashioning, and you will see how vain labour, and sorrow, and disgrace have been their companions from the first-and all this for trifles that no man really needs!”

Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

“I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.”

Known Sorrow Aids Wretched

Author:Virgil

“Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last I did, thank Heaven! - and from its long, sad, wretched dream, to dawn.”

Looks Heart Long Dream Lasts Night Heaven Sorrow Let Me Dawn Look Up Wretched Brooding Undisciplined Long Sad

Book:David Copperfield: Classic English Literature

Source: David Copperfield: Classic English Literature

“When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.”

World Desire Growing Up Growing Sorrow Rain Overcoming Increase Buddhist Grass Wretched Clinging Grass Growing

Author:Gautama Buddha

“But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.”

Hard Desire Water Justice Masters Sorrow Overcoming Buddhist Wretched Drop Of Water Lotuses

Author:Gautama Buddha