Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(21st August 1830) The Legacy of the Roses
The London Literary Gazette, 1830
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 282.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(21st August 1830) The Legacy of the Roses
The London Literary Gazette, 1830
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 4
“Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Source: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
“I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker
“I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.”
James Jones (1921–1977) American author
As quoted in Into Eternity : The Life of James Jones, American Writer (1985) by Frank MacShane, p. 305
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 107
James Montgomery (1771–1854) British editor, hymn writer, and poet
What is Prayer?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.”
Henry Maudsley (1835–1918) British psychiatrist
[Maudsley, Henry, The Pathology of Mind, Macmillan, 1895, 978-0-598-47100-0, https://books.google.com/books?id=C5QXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA138, 138]
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 81