Quotations About / On: SORROW

  • 11.
    There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
    (Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946), U.S. essayist, aphorist. "Life and Human Nature," Afterthoughts (1931).)
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  • 12.
    The sorrow of not being movie stars overwhelms millions.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, New York (1984).)
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  • 13.
    We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
    (Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "Of Vanity," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. III, ch. 9, Abel Langelier, Paris (1588).)
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  • 14.
    There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
    (Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet. "Inferno," cto. 5, l. 121-3, The Divine Comedy (1321). spoken by Francesca da Rimini. This thought appears in Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, bk. 2 (6th century).)
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  • 15.
    Victorian sorrow: the stars are winking in the sky, but not for us.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection, New York (1987).)
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  • 16.
    My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection, New York (1991).)
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  • 17.
    Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).)
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  • 18.
    All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
    (Isak Dinesen (1885-1962), Danish author. As quoted in The Human Condition, Epigram, ch. 5, by Hannah Arendt (1958).)
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  • 19.
    All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Second Selection, New York (1985).)
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  • 20.
    When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Third Selection, New York (1986).)
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