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SORROW: The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. (Henry Maudsley, pioneering British psychiatrist 1835-1918 (Henry Maudsley)
SORROW: The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. (Henry Maudsley, pioneering British psychiatrist (Unknown Source)
SORROW: 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)
SORROW: The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. (Henry Maudsley, pioneering British psychiatrist (1835-1918)
SORROW: 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)
SORROW: 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)
SORROW: The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath. (The Talmud)
SORROW: 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)
SORROW: The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
SORROW: While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
SORROW: 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)
SORROW: 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)
SORROW: There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. (J.H. Vincent, U.S. bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1832-1920)