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To thee, to thee, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life wer...

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Whenever one speaks of lonely people one takes too much for granted. One thinks people all know what...

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Again and again, however we know the landscape of loveand the little churchyard there, with its sorr...

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Isn’t it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ou...

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so much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone w...

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That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the stran...

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Rainer Maria RilkeLetters to a Young Poet

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

To laugh often and much,to win the respect of the intelligent peopleand the affection of children; t...

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Sorrow makes us all children again.

To be afraid of sorrow is to be afraid of joy also.

Through this evening of sentences cut short because their completed meaning was always sorrow, of no...

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O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging ...

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As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

But the artist began to have misgivings as the wall underwent its transformation. Bigger than any pa...

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There is sorrow enough in the natural wayFrom men and woman to fill our day;But when we are certain ...

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You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left ...

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The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in h...

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We shall enjoy itAs for him who findsfault, may sillinessand sorrow take him!

Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed Loving the storm that sways he...

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I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy ...

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It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not.

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It’s what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a...

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True sorrow is as rare as true love.

I have seen the face of sorrowShe looks away in the distanceAcross all these bridgesFrom whence I ca...

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Sarah shifted on the bench. I worried she was winding up to say something, that Sky would start humm...

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There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreduc...

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I'm left with Haymitch in the rubble, wondering if Finnick’s fate would have one day been mine. Why ...

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Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.

She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a se...

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T. H. WhiteThe Once and Future King

Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too b...

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Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns.

To sorrow I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She lo...

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Thomas HardyThe Return of the Native

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see,Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me;In exi...

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Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm...

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COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!”In the deep valley, in the twilight, the apple trees were on the eve of...

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That's the worst of sorrow . . . it's always a vicious circle. It makes one tense and hard and disag...

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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.

Sorrow is a fruit God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.

One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow .... Under ordinary circumstances, jeal...

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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.

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VirgilThe Aeneid

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that f...

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In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety t...

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About suffering they were never wrong The Old Masters How well they understood Its human position ...

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Walk openly, Marian used to say. Love even the threat and the pain, feel yourself fully alive, cast ...

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Wallace StegnerAll the Little Live Things

The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus ...

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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

I whisper over to myself the way of loss, the names of the dead. One by one, we lose our loved ones,...

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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 ...

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If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie’s fac...

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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind ...

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Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

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William BlakeProverbs of Hell

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and withou...

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The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands...

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William JoyceNicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

Such views the youthful Bard allure,But, heedless of the following gloom,He deems their colours shal...

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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not ...

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When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But childr...

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Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do ge...

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I am alone. I am here. No one is watching me. In these hours of silence that I cherish, I talk to my...

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Íngrid BetancourtEven Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

They say my verse is sad: no wonder.Its narrow measure spansRue for eternity, and sorrowNot mine, bu...

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A. E. HousmanA Shropshire Lad

Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivat...

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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made ...

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

But the heavy stroke which most of all distresses me is my dear Mother. I cannot overcome my too sel...

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Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief i...

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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony beca...

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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, be...

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Thou hast Drawn laughter from A well of secret tears And thence so elvish it rings, -mocking And swe...

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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the diseas...

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I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it al...

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If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to enc...

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One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. ...

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You are never lost in sorrow, it seems to me, ever. You do know the way. In fact, you don't think th...

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She knew as well as anyone that the world could be a place of trial and sorrow, that there was injus...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain;...

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The truth is,’ replied Dantes, ‘that I am too happy for noisy mirth; ...joy takes a strange effect a...

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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to hi...

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Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

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

Sweet for a little even to fear, and sweet, O love, to lay down fear at love’s fair feet; Shall not ...

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Doing this was likewading and then throwing yourself into the lake for the first icy swim, in June. ...

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Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must lea...

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I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately with...

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But I am not allowed to forgetThe taste of the tears of yesterday.

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

I’m not weeping, I’m not complaining,Happiness is not for me.

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone....

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Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them...

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Azar NafisiReading Lolita in Tehran

Hang sorrow care'll kill a cat.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for...

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