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Category: Sorrow and Nostalgia

1. "Few things are as painful as the truth realized too late."

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Other categories: Truth and Falsity

2. "Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Other categories: Joy and Sadness

3. "We keep seeking our angel, demons come unsought."

Agnieszka Lisak

Other categories: Power and Weakness -:- Good and Evil

4. "Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

Rainer Maria Rilke

Other categories: God and Religion -:- Work and Laziness

5. "When I wished to sing of love it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow it was transformed for me into love."

Franz Schubert

Other categories: Art and Culture -:- Love

6. "Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Journals"

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

7. "Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short."

English proverb

Other categories: Marriage

8. "All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them."

Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)

9. "The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Other categories: Envy

10. "There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness."

Dante Alighieri, "The Divine Comedy"

Other categories: Memory

11. "Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe."

Angela Carter

Other categories: History and Nations

12. "Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret."

Benjamin Disraeli, "Coningsby"

Other categories: Youth and Age

13. "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. "

Robert Lee Frost

Other categories: Work and Laziness

14. "Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow."

Honoré De Balzac

Other categories: Joy and Sadness

15. "Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion."

Samuel Johnson

16. "A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

John Barrymore

Other categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Youth and Age

17. "Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience."

Victoria Holt

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

18. "Sorrow is the child of too much joy."

Chinese proverb

Other categories: Joy and Sadness

19. "Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow."

Swedish proverb

Other categories: Joy and Sadness

20. "Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees."

Swedish proverb

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21. "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."

Publilius Syrus, "Sentences"

Other categories: Oration and Silence

22. "Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."

St. Thomas Aquinas

Other categories: Health and Alcohol

23. "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."

Leo Buscaglia

Other categories: Joy and Sadness

24. "Patience is the plaster of all sores."

Irish proverb

Other categories: Pain and Tears

25. "You can't prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but can prevent them from building their nest on it."

Chinese proverb

26. "Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."

Charles Spurgeon

Other categories: Anger

27. "Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

Emily Brontë

Other categories: Joy and Sadness

28. "We crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow."

Fulton Oursler

Other categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Time and Passing

29. "Those who drink to drown their sorrows should be taught that sorrows know how to swim."

Ann Landers

Other categories: Health and Alcohol

30. "Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion."

Dorothy Parker, "Here Lies"

31. "Don't borrow sorrow from tomorrow!"

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32. "The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live."

Albert Einstein

Other categories: Life and Death

33. "Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up."

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Other categories: Joy and Sadness

34. "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

Chinese proverb

Other categories: Anger

35. "Happiness is salutary for the body but sorrow develops the powers of the spirit."

Marcel Proust, "Time Regained"

Other categories: Happiness

36. "Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours."

English proverb

Other categories: Joy and Sadness

37. "Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow."

English proverb

Other categories: Sin and Conscience

38. "These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless."

George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"

Other categories: Youth and Age

39. "I have never regretted anything. Regret, like guilt, is a waste of time."

Henry Miller

40. "Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates."

Jean de La Bruyere

41. "We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken."

Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"

42. "Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly."

George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

43. "The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Other categories: Joy and Sadness

44. "Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy."

Lev Tolstoy

Other categories: Joy and Sadness

45. "Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven."

Mark Twain, "Following the Equator"

Other categories: Wit and Humor

46. "Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim."

Graham Greene, "The Heart of the Matter"

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

47. "It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it. "

William Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage"

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes


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