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“Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.”

Feels Heart Doe Ends Pain Suffering Dies Causes Black Grief Compassion Grace Sadness Gold And Love Remains Intense Layers Pearls Coins Resignation Kernel Black Pearl

Author:Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.”

Heart Eye Pain Black Knowing Sadness Sad Torment Disdain Ruth

Book:Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems

Source: Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems

“Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'”

Way Should Looks Body Black Results Opinion Sadness Conditions Events Responsible Profound Reasoning Stomach Unhealthy Profound Sadness

Author:Emile Chartier

“February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring. Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas, Race through the noice of bells and wheels To where the ink and all you grieving Are muffled when the rainshower falls. To where, like pears burnt black as charcoal, A myriad rooks, plucked from the trees, Fall down into the puddles, hurl Dry sadness deep into the eyes. Below, the wet black earth shows through, With sudden cries the wind is pitted, The more haphazard, the more true The poetry that sobs its heart out.”

Writing Heart Shows Eye Earth Fall Black Race Tree Sadness Cry Tears Wind Six Spring Grieving Dry Wheels Bells Wet Shed Ink Falling Down Blackness February Puddles Pears Charcoal Haphazard Slush

Author:Boris Pasternak

“The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under the city. This onion made us cry... I thought about the giant onion, that remarkable bulb of sadness.”

Made Black Cities Sun Sadness Cry Theory Huge Giants Remarkable Buried Onions Bulbs Vapor Shimmer Asphalt

Author:Gary Soto

“Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Eldar Race. He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings.”

Men Names Black Born Race Air Sadness Kings Shadow Wings Touched Spokes Captains Nobility Return Of The King Pippin Faramir

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him, at her having existed before he met her, and of sadness for his possessing nothing of the ten million minutes of that black-and-white scallop-edged existence save these few proofs.”

Two Black White Existence Wonder Millions Sadness Childhood Minutes Source Mets Ten Photograph Proof Tennis Dozen Black And White Commonplace Possessing Racket Ponies Dodge Looming Scallops

Author:Michael Chabon

“I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.”

Men World Years Father Black Boys Sadness Loneliness Musician Wisdom Experience Sadness And Loneliness

Author:Eric Clapton

“Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.”

Black Sadness Tears Laughter Balls Tall Salt Cliffs Jackets

Author:Paul McCartney

“You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.”

Ifs Way May Has Beens Might Difficult Black Water Fire Sadness Sad Smoke Landscape Department Over You Distracted Damp Fire Department

Author:Daniel Handler

“God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness.”

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Author:Charles Spurgeon

“The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.”

Past Black Cities Sadness Rocks San Francisco Neon Nevada

Book:Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

Source: Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism