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I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

Oscar Wilde
Sorrow, Might, Helping
Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.1766, e-artnow

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

Oscar Wilde
Men, Feeling Sad, Sorrow
Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.119, Diversion Books

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

Oscar Wilde
Heart, Sorrow, May
Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.151, Oxford Paperbacks

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

Oscar Wilde
Grief, Suffering, Sorrow
Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

Oscar Wilde
Heart, Broken, Sorrow
Oscar Wilde (1962). “The letters of Oscar Wilde”

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

Oscar Wilde
Hands, Sorrow, Wounds
Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.7, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

Oscar Wilde
Friends, Mind, Sorrow
Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.86, Wordsworth Editions

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

Oscar Wilde
Greatness, Sorrow, Shallow
Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.173, Xist Publishing

We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

Oscar Wilde
Heart, Broken, Sorrow
Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.187, Oxford University Press on Demand

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

Oscar Wilde
Grief, Suffering, Sorrow
Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.7, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

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