“How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!” HeartDreamGriefLandReturnSorrowHeavyDisasterOblivionMuteMorrowSlumberDeceptiveWailing Book:The Last Man Source: The Last Man
“And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.” YoungFoundNamesGivenLossGriefLandRememberedLonesomeGiven Names Book:Yesterdays in a Busy Life Source: Yesterdays in a Busy Life
“In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires.” WayNightCultureHouseDarkGriefLandMankindCostPrisonDawnPersistDark NightPromised Land Book:A Mania for Magnificence Source: A Mania for Magnificence
“I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord saith leadeth to the New Jerusalem. Sure I am, if you knew what were before you, or if you saw some glances of it, you would, with gladness, swim through the present floods of sorrow, spreading forth your arms out of desire to be at land.” IfsKnowsWayMightDesireGriefLordSawsLandArmsSorrowSwimFloodGlancesOur LordJerusalemGladnessHeaviness Author:Samuel Rutherford