We all experience sorrow, it is our understanding and perception which empowers us to become resilient. Sorrow has been written about since the creation of man. There are quotes which give us a deeper understanding and clarity about dejection and regret.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will prove to be for your own good. – Ovid

Sorrow like rain makes roses and mud. – Austin O’ Malley

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with boldness. – Marcus T Cicero

Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. – Sophocles

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps. – Henry Ward Beecher

If you sleep, desire grows in you like a vine in the forest. Like the monkey in the forest, you jump from tree to tree, never finding the fruit—From life to life, never finding the peace. If you are filled with desire your sorrows swell like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire your sorrows shall fall from you like drops of water from a lotus flower. – Gautama Buddha

In one of the stars, I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so, it will be as if all the stars are laughing when you look at the sky at night…And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content to have known me. – The Little Prince

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