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“Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.”

Men May Form Joy Desire Poetry Sorrow Infinity August Persephone

Book:A Passage to India

Source: A Passage to India

“When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.”

Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

“Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.”

Life Long Matter Joy Desire Teaching Regret Sorrow Anguish Frail Sorrowful

Book:Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series

Source: Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series

“My feeling about fiction, regardless of the genre, is that it is meant to be a representation of life. I want my books to give a whole spectrum of experiences to my readers. Not just fear or terror or revulsion, but excitement, laughter, pain, sorrow, desire, etc.”

Want Giving Book Whole Feelings Pain Desire Fiction Reader Sorrow Laughter Terror Genre Excitement Etc Meant To Be Representation Spectrum Genre Is Revulsion

Author:Richard Laymon

“As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined, you overcome all limitation, all sorrow, and all pain. You learn not to be bound by desire, and eventually you transcend death itself.”

Light Pain Desire Practice Meditation Progress Buddhism Periods Sorrow Overcoming Bounds Limitation Meditation Practice

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Friends given by God in mercy and in love; My counsellors, my comforters, and guides; My joy in grief, my second bliss in joy; Companions of my young desires; in doubt My oracles; my wings in high pursuit. Oh! I remember, and will ne'er forget Our meeting spots, our chosen sacred hours; Our burning words, that utter'd all the soul, Our faces beaming with unearthly love;-- Sorrow with sorrow sighing, hope with hope Exulting, heart embracing heart entire.”

“Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.”

Men Desire Youth Sorrow

Author:Louise Imogen Guiney

“This conversion into prayer of our everyday joys, sorrows, hopes and desires is at first a conscious labor, but after a while it becomes second nature, so that converse with God becomes inextricably and wonderfully woven into the fabric of our lives.”

Firsts Joy Desire Prayer Our Lives Sorrow Conscious Labor Everyday Conversion Fabric Woven Converses

Author:Sheila Cassidy

“Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.”

Mind States Past Desire Sorrow Fixed Looking Forward Looking Forward To The Future

Book:The Rambler

Source: The Rambler

“Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.”

Desire Example Sorrow Soap

Author:Mason Cooley

“Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.”

Jobs Past Desire Memories Darkness Ready Sorrow Justification Innate

Book:Romance and Reality

Source: Romance and Reality