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

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
Andrew Greeley

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.
Arthur Hugh Clough

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles Spurgeon

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.
James Weldon Johnson

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
Sophocles

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
Nikolai Gogol

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.
Peter S. Beagle

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Jeremy Taylor

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Frida Kahlo

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.
Jim Cole

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Joseph Addison

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Henry Ward Beecher

Love's boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a list of mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.
Vladimir Mayakovsky

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
Mason Cooley