The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

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

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

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

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.