“ A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 480
“ There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. ”
- Dante Alighieri- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
- 1K
“ There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again! ”
- Robert Gilfillan- Copy
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“ When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Can wealth give happiness? Look around and see, what gay distress! What splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more. ”
- Andrew Young- Copy
- 274
“ Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. ”
- Michael Harrington- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
- 3.6K
“ You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. ”
- Frank Crane- Copy
- 2K
“ Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. ”
- John Armstrong- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains. ”
- Anne Frank- Copy
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“ We can only know one thing about God — that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. ”
- A.J. Cronin- Copy
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“ Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
- 2.2K
“ One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. ”
- Sophocles- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ There's a pang in all rejoicing, And a joy in the heart of pain; And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain. ”
- Bayard Taylor- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength. ”
- Corrie ten Boom- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 2.7K
“ If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 1.4K
“ In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part. ”
- Michael Bruce- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe. ”
- Eliza Cook- Copy
- 812
“ Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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