Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.
Christina Baldwin
1. "All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them."
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
2. "The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Other categories: Envy
3. "There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness."
Dante Alighieri, "The Divine Comedy"
Other categories: Memory
4. "Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe."
Angela Carter
Other categories: History and Nations
5. "Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret."
Benjamin Disraeli, "Coningsby"
Other categories: Youth and Age
6. "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. "
Robert Lee Frost
Other categories: Work and Laziness
7. "Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow."
Honoré De Balzac
Other categories: Joy and Sadness
8. "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
9. "A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
John Barrymore
Other categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Youth and Age
10. "Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience."
Victoria Holt
Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes
11. "Sorrow is the child of too much joy."
Chinese proverb
Other categories: Joy and Sadness
12. "Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow."
Swedish proverb
Other categories: Joy and Sadness
13. "Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees."
Swedish proverb
14. " I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
Publilius Syrus, "Sentences"
Other categories: Oration and Silence
15. "Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."
St. Thomas Aquinas
Other categories: Health and Alcohol
16. "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."
Leo Buscaglia
Other categories: Joy and Sadness
17. "Patience is the plaster of all sores."
Irish proverb
Other categories: Pain and Tears
18. "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
19. "Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."
Charles Spurgeon
Other categories: Anger
20. "Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."
Emily Brontë
Other categories: Joy and Sadness
21. "We crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow."
Fulton Oursler
Other categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Time and Passing
22. "Those who drink to drown their sorrows should be taught that sorrows know how to swim."
Ann Landers
Other categories: Health and Alcohol
23. "Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion."
Dorothy Parker, "Here Lies"
24. "Don't borrow sorrow from tomorrow!"
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25. "The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live."
Albert Einstein
Other categories: Life and Death
26. "Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up."
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Other categories: Joy and Sadness
27. "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
Chinese proverb
Other categories: Anger
28. "Happiness is salutary for the body but sorrow develops the powers of the spirit."
Marcel Proust, "Time Regained"
Other categories: Happiness
29. "Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours."
English proverb
Other categories: Joy and Sadness
30. "Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow."
English proverb
Other categories: Sin and Conscience
31. "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
32. "I have never regretted anything. Regret, like guilt, is a waste of time."
Henry Miller
33. "Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates."
Jean de La Bruyere
34. "We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken."
Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"
35. "Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly."
George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"
Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes
36. "The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Other categories: Joy and Sadness
37. "Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy."
Lev Tolstoy
Other categories: Joy and Sadness
38. "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
39. "Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim."
Graham Greene, "The Heart of the Matter"
Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes
40. "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
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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