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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating ...

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In my dream, people apologized for things that were about to happen, and lit candles by inhaling.

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

Earthly contemplation means to the Christian, we have said, this above all: that behind all that we ...

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The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrou...

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We're in a free fall into the future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast. ...

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When the Buddha declares there is escape from sorrow, the escape is Nirvana, which is not a place, l...

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I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such ...

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Yes, she had changed her mind after sixty years and she would like to see George. I want you to find...

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Katherine Anne PorterThe Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t...

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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the w...

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Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns

Once, when I was little, I asked her if she’d cried when my father had fallen to his death.At the fu...

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Khaled HosseiniAnd the Mountains Echoed

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale ...

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I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've bee...

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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorr...

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—I won't go about to argue the point with you,—'tis so,—and I am persuaded of it, madam, as much as ...

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Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outs...

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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and wen...

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It is strange,' he said at last. 'I had longed to enter the world of men. Now I see it filled with s...

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There are few sorrows however poignant in which a good income is of no avail.

Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowl...

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Don't let fear swallow all your happiness. Don't forget to take joy." Dag gulped. Both of their grou...

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The busy have no time for tears.

When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No ...

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…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.

For me, this is old. I probably know what is happening better than he does because I've tried over a...

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And in myself, too, many things have perished which, I imagined, would last for ever, and new struct...

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So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause the...

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.

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Margaret AtwoodThe Blind Assassin

How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness...

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Our dream of life will end as dreams do end, abruptly and completely, when the sun rises, when the l...

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She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have ...

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

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no h...

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I believe you did not have a happy life.I believe you were cheated.I believe your best friends were ...

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What man is there that does not laboriously though all unconsciously himself fashion the sorrow th...

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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

All sorrows are bearable if there is bread.

A pedant who beheld Solon weeping for the death of a son said to him, ‘Why do you weep thus, if weep...

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Miguel de UnamunoTragic Sense of Life

While grief is fresh every attempt to divert it only irritates.

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

...and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see...

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N. K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man...

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There was a listlessness in his gait, as if he saw no reason for taking one step further, nor felt a...

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Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman...

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The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

I mean talk. Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's bee...

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Where is an intimate friend who’ll hear the secret from me straight out– of what human beings ha...

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Omar KhayyámEdward Fitzgerald's The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The mighty Mahmúd, Allah-breathing Lord,That all the misbelieving and black HordeOf Fears and Sorrow...

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Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach y...

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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one ...

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Oscar WildeA House of Pomegranates

But we who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by ...

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Oscar WildeComplete Works of Oscar Wilde

Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most ...

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Oscar WildeDe Profundis

Of course to one so modern as I am, `Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at the world will be alwa...

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Oscar WildeDe Profundis and Other Writings

The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Suiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the so...

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Squiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the s...

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Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasant...

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P. G. WodehouseThe Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology

Sorrow (A Song)To me this world's a dreary blank,All hopes in life are gone and fled,My high strung ...

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red rain is coming downred rain is pouring downred rain is coming down all over meI'm bathing in itr...

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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