Quote#Sadness
There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control…
Quote bySheridan Le Fanu · 1814–1873
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Uncle Silas (1864), Ch. 21.
English (original)
There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whose laws we must study, and to whose conditions we must submit, if we would mitigate it.
— Sheridan Le Fanu
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