#sorrow

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#sorrow #time #funny

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#borne #into #put #sorrows #story

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

There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#american people #anger #believe #communication #disappointment

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 sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#joy #paint #sing #sorrow

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

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. ↗

— Ovid

#bear #day #endure #good #one day