Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful. Proverbs 14:13
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. Proverbs 15:13
Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on? ... I don’t know the answer; I know only that I can’t. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. Emily Brontë
Death’s the discharge of our debt of sorrow. Seneca
What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another! Laurence Sterne
They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future. Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Leave this vain sorrow;
Things being at the worst, begin to mend. John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi