#sorrow

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us. ↗

— Walter Pater

#comes #disinterested #ecstasy #enthusiastic #forms

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#almost #other #our #out #people

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies. ↗

— Sophocles

#bred #children #except #furnishes #gives

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#good #good cheer #liar #promises #saloon

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#hands #harp #i #kitchen #licked

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#had #having #me #parents #solace

Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#living #living-on #sorrow #waiting #age

My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want to cause any unhappiness now—in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn’t here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly. ↗

— W. Bruce Cameron

#dogs-loyalty #love #love-from-a-dog #loyal #sad

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#sorrow #art

Sorrow fades," he muttered as he retrieved the last fragment, "grief dies, but Art lives forever. ↗

— Kenyon Gambier

#grief #sorrow #art