“Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.”
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The Gardener http://www.spiritualbee.com/love-poems-by-tagore/ (1915)

“Melancholy: when we have sorrows without a name.”
First lines of Zelazny's first published short story, Passion Play (1962)

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“The busy bee has no time for sorrow.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 11

“There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.”
"A First Word"
A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934)