If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Would you touch a nettle without being stung by it? take hold of it stoutly. Do the same to other annoyances, and hardly will any thing annoy you. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers