#sorrow

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smiling, anthills, the color of the sky, coffee and cashmere, literature, sparks and subway trains... If only one could leave this life slowly! ↗

— Roman Payne

#death #dying #life #loss #love

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#difficulty #entire #forever #free #lives

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too. ↗

— Aberjhani

#crying #hopefulness #inspiration #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-quotes

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for? ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#nothing #pain #people #sorrow

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#been #deep #delight #find #given

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#choose #experience #joys #long #our

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. ↗

— Hesiod

#age #cause #comes #deadly #does

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

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