Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart, I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling.
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
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