Sophocles - The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Steven Tyler - Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Alyssa Milano - First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.
Golda Meir - Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
Hannah Arendt - The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
H. G. Wells - Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Pierre Corneille - We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
Dionne Warwick - Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
Anne Bronte - Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
Nana Mouskouri - I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
Yoko Ono - Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Carl Jung - The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Jean de La Fontaine - Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Christopher Morley - Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
John Greenleaf Whittier - For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Joseph Campbell - Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
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