#sorrow

I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful desolation came upon her face that I perceived she was one of those creatures that are not the playthings of Time. For her he had died only yesterday. And, by Jove! the impression was so powerful that for me, too, he seemed to have died only yesterday -- nay, this very minute. I saw her and him in the same instant of time -- his death and her sorrow -- I saw her sorrow in the very moment of his death. Do you understand? I saw them together -- I heard them together. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#death #devotion #mourning #sorrow #time

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations. ↗

— John Banville

#death #grief #immortality #life-goes-on #loss

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#any #capable #good #mind #real

Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks. ↗

— John Burnham Schwartz

#sorrow #beauty

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#develop #grieves #our #sorrows #trials

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#day #dream #dreary #gloom #happy

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#apologize #being #come #curtain #decent

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. ↗

— Herman Melville

#goodness #more #sorrow #than #too

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#become #calm #faith #faithful #find

Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights. ↗

— Francois de Malherbe

#delights #nights #our #sorrows #woven