Shared sorrow is half sorrow
Danish Proverb
Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the most sorrow upon themselves
Euripides
Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.
Dorothy Parker
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo
Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends
African Proverb
Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors
German Proverb
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Jean Paul Richter
There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
Marcus T. Cicero
Sorrow makes us children again.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
Oscar Wilde
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine
St. Thomas Aquinas
Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
George Henry Borrow
Distant or near, in joy or in sorrow, each in the other sees his true helper to brotherly freedom.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Thus while I journey on, my Lord to meet,My thoughts and meditations are so sweet,Of Him on whom I lean, my strength, my stay,I can forget the sorrows of the way.
Horatius Bonar