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“There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.”

Certain Pleasure Grief Tears Satisfaction Cures Weeping

Author:Ovid

“For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.”

Grief Sea Weeping

Author:Isaac Watts

“On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them, the hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.”

“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.”

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Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless - that is enough to send one weeping to bed.”

Writing Enough Stories Grief Saws Written Bed Labor Dull Weeping

Author:Winifred Holtby

“I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities; but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.”

Want Sex Women Grief Cry Tears Sorrow Pity Vain Dry Honorable Weeping Dew

Book:The Winter's Tale: Third Series

Source: The Winter's Tale: Third Series

“Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.”

Dream Reality Speak Grief Survival Ideals Rivers Noble Uplifting Sanity Distracted Weeping Platonic Music Speaks

Author:Pam Brown

“What a wonder is it, that two natures infinitely distant, should be more intimately united than anything in the world; and yet without any confusion! That the same person should have both a glory and a grief; an infinite joy in the Deity, and an inexpressible sorrow in the humanity! That a God upon a throne should be an infant in a cradle; the thundering Creator be a weeping babe and a suffering man, are such expressions of mighty power, as well as condescending love, that they astonish men upon earth, and angels in heaven.”

“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”

“Only Esmeralda was not weeping. Instead she wore that wooden look that whites mistake for churlishenss or indifference. Woodrew knew it was neither. It was familiarity. This how real life is constituted, it said. This is grief and hatred and people hacked to death. This is the everyday we have known since we were born and you Wazungu have not.”

People Looks Said Real Life Is Born Grief Mistake Known Hatred Everyday Real Life Indifference Weeping Familiarity Hacked

Author:John le Carre

“You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets, and this sadness I feel has taken from me the taste of language, so that I cannot say the flavor of my being apart.”

Feels Mind Soul Left Language Grief Existence Taken Sadness Sky Taste Angel Absence Prophet Flavor Weeping Mourn

Author:Rumi

“You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.”

Mind Heart Soul Left Grief Existence Sky Broken Absence Broken Heart Weeping

Author:Rumi

“Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand.”

Hands Grief Known Sorrow Let Me Grieving Weeping Griefing

Author:Grace Noll Crowell

“It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.”

Heart Grief Cry Tears Broken Satisfied Breakup Relief Broken Heart Weeping Tears And Crying Cry Tears

Author:Ovid

“If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.”

Ifs Grief Sadness Tears Sorrow Gold Raises Misery Heal Weeping

Author:Sophocles

“Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.”

Believe Wells I Believe Grief Tragedy Musical Patterns Weeping Songbirds

Author:William Shakespeare