delad sorg är halv sorg

Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From German geteilte Freud' ist doppelt Freude, geteilter Schmerz ist halber Schmerz (“shared joy is double joy, shared sorrow is half sorrow”), from a poem written by Christoph August Tiedge in 1801.

Proverb

delad sorg är halv sorg

  1. shared sorrow is half sorrow

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