#sorrowful

O Virgins, sacrosanct, if I have ever, for your sake, suffered vigils,cold,, and hunger, great need makes me entreat my recompense. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#repentance #sorrowful #inspirational

It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace... ↗

— John Green

#cancer #pain #sad #sorrow #sorrowful

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

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#day #dream #dreary #gloom #happy

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#apologize #being #come #curtain #decent

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

#again #been #delight #heart #look

Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#being #burden #closest #collaborators #decisions

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

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#conception #foster #i #make #sacrifices

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

#buddhism #catholic #could #mankind #masses