“Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.”

“The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you’re not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.”

Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“Work is always an antidote to depression.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

“Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.”

George C. Lorimer (1838–1904) American minister

“But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“Clichés are the armature of the Absolute. (Source: Alfred Jarry, Selected Works, edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor. Cape, London, 1965).”

Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) French writer

“My life will be the best illustration of all my work.”

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet

“The discharge of a duty from affection is the best solace for sorrow.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

“In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learned to swim”

Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2

“Someone to hold onto
And keep me from all fear
Someone to be my guiding light
And keep me ever dear
To keep me from my selfishness
To keep me from my sorrow
To lead me on to givingness
So I can see a new tomorrow.”

Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician