#sorrow

Happiness is an illusion ↗

— ShinigamiGew

#happiness #pain #saddness #sorrow #death

A pedant who beheld Solon weeping for the death of a son said to him, ‘Why do you weep thus, if weeping avails nothing?’ And the sage answered him, ‘Precisely for that reason—because it does not avail. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#death

Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn’t a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping. ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#life #sorrow #death

The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled heart to open wide, filling the space of emptiness that grief may have created with a renewed sense of peace, compassion, and love. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#compassion #death #god #grief #heart

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #sorrow #love

Tell me you won't go, tell me you'll stay forever, tell me you love me. ↗

— C.J. Archer

#historical-fantasy #love #sadness #sorrow #love

...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

Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place. ↗

— J.I.Packer

#sorrow #turning #change

Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origins in the ecstasies which might have been. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe's "Berenice"

#contemplative #edgar-allan-poe #inspirational #interesting #philosophical

Those who do not weep, do not see. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#inspirational #sorrow #inspirational