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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.