#sorrow

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#beautiful #enduring #feel #get #guilty

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#inherit #must #sorrow #tribulation #war

Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live. Our circle will be small, but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune. And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#love #misfortune #sorrow #death

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#accomplished #daily #go #great #laboriously

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#bear #does #fruit #god #grow

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. ↗

— David Hume

#hope #joy #poverty #propensity #real

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow. ↗

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

#believe #blood #caused #counts #great

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

#build #cries #forth #leaves #old

Samo si mene imao, osim onih grobova kod kuće, sad više nikog nemamo ni ti ni ja, ti si mene izgubio prije nego ja tebe, ili možda nisi, možda si mislio da stojim pred ovom okovanom kapijom, kao što bi ti stajao zbog mene, možda si se do posljednjeg časa nadao da ću ti pomoći, i kamo sreće da si mi toliko vjerovao, ne bi te uhvatio strah od konačne samoće, kad nas svi napuste. A ako si sve znao, neka mi Bog pomogne. ↗

— Meša Selimović

#grieving #sorrow #death

I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#compassion #death #empathy #mourning #objectivity