The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. (Henry Maudsley, pioneering British psychiatrist 1835-1918

— Henry Maudsley

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. (Henry Maudsley, pioneering British psychiatrist

— Unknown Source

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

— Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.

— Henry Maudsley, pioneering British psychiatrist (1835-1918

If there be sorrow / let it be / for things undone / undreamed / unrealized unattained / to these add one: / Love withheld … / restrained.

— Mari Evans, U.S. poet, 1919-2017

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

— Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies, and author of the ground-breaking book, Death and Dying, 1926-2004

The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.

— The Talmud

When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, but in battalions!

— William Shakespeare, English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-161

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

— Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates.

— Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784

Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.

— Victor Hugo, French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, 1802-1885

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

— Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer whose novel, Don Quixote, has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the Bible, the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

— J.H. Vincent, U.S. bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1832-1920
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