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#sorrow

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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. ↗


— William Shakespeare


#battalions #come #single #sorrows #spies

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. ↗


— Samuel Smiles


#difficulty #discoveries #established #great #greatest

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow. ↗


— John Strachan


#disturb #fall #fills #him #his

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. ↗


— Jeremy Taylor


#children #feeds #his #home #loves

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy. ↗


— Sara Teasdale


#find #found #i #joy #more

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. ↗


— Alfred Lord Tennyson


#crown #happier #remembering #sorrow #times

A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands. ↗


— Tomas Transtromer


#away #behind #blazes #both #dew

We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much it matters what we achieve, how rare and unfair are our professional failures, how rife with misunderstandings are our relationships, how deep are our sorrows. Melodrama is individually always the order of the day. ↗


— Alain de Botton


#melodrama #relationships #self #significance #sorrows

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms. ↗


— Khaled Hosseini


#cring #fables #greed #poverty #sorrow

grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how to contain us grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping grief is a house where no on can protect you where the younger sister will grow older than the older one where the doors no longer let you in or out ↗


— Jandy Nelson


#grief #mourning #poetry #sorrow #sisters






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