Sadness Proverbs (164 Proverbs)
- The end of mirth is the beginning of sorrow.
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- Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.
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- If the heart is sad, tears will flow.
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- One for sorrow; two for mirth; three for a wedding; four for a birth.
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- Help you to salt, help you to sorrow.
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- Drink makes you forget your sorrow; but only, alas, until tomorrow.
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- Beauty is the eye's food but the soul's sorrow.
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- The misery is that you have to ruin your day with work.
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- The bridge between joy and sorrow is not long.
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- Self-love is bad, and makes the eyes sad.
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- Who makes his bed on the morrow; goes all day without sorrow.
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- Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.
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- To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy.
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- Sorrow for the death of a father lasts six months; sorrow for a mother, a year; sorrow for a wife, until another wife; sorrow for a son, forever.
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- If charity cost nothing and benevolence caused no heartache, the world would be full of philanthropists.
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- The dog called "Sorrow," without eating, will be fat in every house.
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- Only through suffering and sorrow do we acquire the wisdom not found in books.
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- You must marry a widow while she is still mourning.
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- One does not live on joy or die of sorrow.
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- Grieve not for that which is irreparably lost.
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- Give wine to them that are in sorrow.
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- All men grieve, and if you ask them the reason why, they cannot tell it.
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- No herb can remedy the anguish of love.
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- It is cruel to refer to those things which cause sorrow.
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- It is a misery to be born, a punishment to live, and a trouble to die.
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- I would rather be in an apple-tree, than a bad man in distress.
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- Seek not the luxuries of life lest you reap sorrow.
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- What people in distress most wish for, they most readily believe.
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- They attend a funeral robed in white, and a wedding in mourning.
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- Not to know the good we have Till time has stolen the cherish'd gift away, Is cause of half the misery that we feel, And makes the world the wilderness it is.
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- Sorrow is like rice in an attic: you use a little every day and at the end it is all gone.
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- Sadness is a valuable treasure -- only discovered in people you love.
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- Idleness moves so slowly that it will be overtaken by misery.
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- It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
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- Small children give you headache; big children heartache.
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- Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
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- Whither goest thou, sorrow? Whither I am used to go.
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- Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow.
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- Seeking happiness is a straight way to misery.
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- Like two golden birds perched on the selfsame tree, intimate friends, the ego and the Self dwell in the same body. The former eats the sweet and sour fruits of the tree of life while the latter looks on in detachment. As long as we think we are the ego, we feel attached and fall into sorrow. But realize that you are the Self, the Lord of life, and you will be freed from sorrow. When you realize that you are the Self, supreme source of light, supreme source of love, you transcend the duality of life and enter into the unitive state.
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- The sun is red at dawn and red at sunset. Great men are unchanged in prosperity and in distress.
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- The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
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- How lovely is the sun after rain, and how lovely is laughter after sorrow.
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- He who has no children has one sorrow, he who has children has a thousand sorrows.
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- He that speaks without care shall remember with sorrow.
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- Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood.
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- Sorrow doesn't kill -- reckless joy does.
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- If you feel sad, laugh.
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- A wolf's mourning is the fox's feast.
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- A small tear relieves a great sorrow.
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- When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.
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- Sorrow doesn't kill, but it blights.
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- One may survive distress, but not disgrace.
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- Sorrow and ill weather come unsent for.
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- Sorrow brings on premature old age.
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- Sorrow dwells on the confines of pleasure.
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- Sorrow follows pleasure.
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- He who increases knowledge, increases sorrow.
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- Hope supports men in distress.
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- Parting is such sweet sorrow.
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- Sorrow is the seed of wealth.
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- Two in distress makes sorrow the less.
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- Hope is the physician of each misery.
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- He who sings drives away sorrow.
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- Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.
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- Joy and sorrow are to-day and to-morrow.
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- Never grieve over spilt milk.
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- Sorrow does not pay any debts.
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- He gains enough who loses sorrow.
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- He wears the mourning of his washerwoman.
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- Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
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- Company in distress makes trouble less.
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- Sorrow will pay no debts.
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- When misery is highest help is nighest.
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- Misery loves company.
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- Dead songbirds make a sad meal.
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- A child's sorrow is short-lived.
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- Along in counsel, alone in sorrow.
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- Children are certain sorrow, but uncertain joy.
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- Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.
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