“I tried to drown my sorrows in alcohol, but the bastards learned how to swim.”— Mark Chappell, Chip, Will Arnett, imdb.com
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.”— Martin Farquhar Tupper, amazon.com
“Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good.”— Charles Dicken, amazon.com
“If I gave less would you require more? Would you give more to make up for the difference, to fill the air with love instead of sorrow and hope instead of despair?”— Tyler Knott Gregson, thoughtcatalog.com
“… And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth’s only furrow.”— Pablo Neruda, thoughtcatalog.com
“Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, amazon.com