Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

I've had to walk through a lot of my tears.

Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard.

Everybody hurts sometimes Everybody cries

Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

Save your tears, you've got years.

There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.

Bear calamities with meekness.

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.

Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.