#sorrow

True sorrow is as rare as true love. ↗

— Stephen King

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I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate? ↗

— Dante Alighieri

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And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

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When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#love #regret #sorrow #love

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow. ↗

— Mark Twain

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As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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...this woman, moved by some private sorrow as much as the words being spoken, cried almost silently, unobserved by others, apart from Mma Ramotswe, who stretched out her hand and laid it on her shoulder. Do not cry, Mma, she began to whisper, but changed her words even as she uttered them, and said quietly, Yes, you can cry, Mma. We should not tell people not to weep - we do it because of our sympathy for them - but we should really tell them that their tears are justified and entirely right. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#sorrow #change

Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep. ↗

— Andrew Sean Greer

#allies #existentialism #love #madness #pain