And the ultimate question remains, To live, is it a blessing or the punishment itself ?

I don’t cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.

The depth of my sorrow is the height of my joy.

All sorrows can be born if you put them in a story or tell a story about them.

We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much it matters what we achieve, how rare and unfair are our professional failures,...

It was the deepest part of the night. There was a name for it that I couldn’t remember – that mystical black hour where all is darkest and you can’t sleep, when the weight of...

Broken Neck! Oh no!

Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private...

It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people’s lives. It was a life of dignity and...

The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry.

I better understood the little lies that liquor told, lifting spirits and drowning sorrows while withholding the whole truth–that, in the end, it is the spirit in peril of drowning. Sorrows have gills.

Our sorrows provide us with the lessons we most need to learn.

…you disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world – I can’t hide my pain or my need so I make a bouquet of my sorrows and give them to you …

It was the kind of building that remembered things, deep-down things, things that rode tears into the world, telling them back to anyone old enough or wise enough to know how to listen with their...

Weep hard as much as you need; but do not let your tears pursue the sorrow for the rest of your life.

Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects...

When you weep and lament, you will struggle to achieve and rejoice.

Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems,And what is invisible stays that way.

The first sorrow of autumn is the slow good-bye of the garden that stands so long in the evening—a brown poppy head, the stalk of a lily, and still cannot go.The second sorrow is the...

Ideas are substitutes for sorrows…

Blurred is the picture, To not know what’s next! Is it the laughter that awaits, Or sorrows lined up to dictate. Untold, unclear is…A story of our fate!

This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.

Many years later when I began training as a plastic surgeon, I understood something that I had not that day in the kitchen arguing for Thalia to leave Tinos for the boarding school. I learned...

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

The simple trill of her laugh has not declined over the years; if anything it’s been buffeted by her endless sorrows and disappointments.

Break free from the binding robes of passion that feels like a lump in your heart, perform that surgery today, and you’ll be set free forever.

Friends don’t understand how much they have hurt you,Until they experience the pain and hurt themselves.

[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.

Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, ‘Laziness and Procrastination’.

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.

Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.