#sorrow

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


Orhan Pamuk


#insight #sorrow #mistakes

I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy details of another farewell. Now, my fingers hovered over my track pad, moving the cursor down to his comment section before I stopped myself. What was the point? Anything I said now would only be an afterthought. Elizabeth who goes by her middle name


Sarah Dessen


#military-brats-have-to-move #moving-away #sorrow #military

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.


Cormac McCarthy


#sorrow #community

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smiling, anthills, the color of the sky, coffee and cashmere, literature, sparks and subway trains... If only one could leave this life slowly!


Roman Payne


#death #dying #life #loss #love

When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.


Patch Adams


#caterpillars #sad #sadness #sorrow #beauty

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.


Confucius


#feel #oppression #should #sink #sorrow

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.


George Eliot


#comes #despair #first #great #healed

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.


Khalil Gibran


#been #deep #delight #find #given

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.


Khalil Gibran


#choose #experience #joys #long #our

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.


Andrew Greeley


#between #curiously #enough #experience #hopes