"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."

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"He fell on his knees on that barren ground, Staring at the sky. And the sky opened up for him by raining. With the rain, every drop of his tear was washed down filling the cracks beneath. nobody got to see his pain and agony. And yet again he remained a mystery that was never solved."

Akshay Vasu, Indian Poet

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"Sugar cane reach up to GodAnd every baby cryingShame the blanket of my nightAnd all my days are dying."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"When sorrows come they come not as single spies But in battalions!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed."

Peter S. Beagle, American Author

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"The saddest sorrow is to desire death while you have life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Each new mornNew widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrowsStrike heaven on the face, that it resoundsAs if it felt with Scotland, and yelled outLike syllable of dolor."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Sorrow, Life, Pain, Philosophy

"Every road leads to sorrow. All aspects that make life beautiful " friendship, love, art, and truth " will end. All aspects that make life hideous " pain, poverty, illness, betrayal, hate, crime, war " will also end. The fact that human life is a mere blip on a cosmic scale is no reason for personal angst as we came from nothingness and will return to the great void that birthed us."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word."

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"Things past redress are now with me past care."

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"Help me Cassius or I sink!"

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"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"

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"Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow."

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"For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away."

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"He fell on his knees on that barren ground, Staring at the sky. And the sky opened up for him by raining. With the rain, every drop of his tear was washed down filling the cracks beneath. nobody got to see his pain and agony. And yet again he remained a mystery that was never solved."

"Sugar cane reach up to GodAnd every baby cryingShame the blanket of my nightAnd all my days are dying."

"Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning."

"When sorrows come they come not as single spies But in battalions!"

"Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed."

"The saddest sorrow is to desire death while you have life."

"Each new mornNew widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrowsStrike heaven on the face, that it resoundsAs if it felt with Scotland, and yelled outLike syllable of dolor."

"What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears."

"I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process."

Explore more quotes by William Shakespeare

"Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word."

"Things past redress are now with me past care."

"Help me Cassius or I sink!"

"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"

"Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow."

"For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away."

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

"I to myself am dearer than a friend."

"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment."

"God befriend us as our cause is just!"