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“What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.”

Men Firsts Moments Grows Wife Sadness He Man Husband Mutual First Love Ruined Husband And Wife Make Out Tacit Rare Moments

Author:Laura Riding

“I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?”

Heart Body Young Grows Sadness Youth Needed Aging Dumb Bells Foils

Author:William Butler Yeats

“When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending kind death as an ending, Like a grand Amen to a minor song.”

Way Heart Kind Long Seems Song Grows Sadness Sad All Things Burden Heavy Thank God Minors Weary Amen Dreary

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“What is God-given is called nature; to follow nature is called Tao (the Way); to cultivate the way is called culture. Before joy, anger, sadness and happiness are expressed, they are called the inner self; when they are expressed to the proper degree, they are called harmony. The inner self is the correct foundation of the world, and the harmony is the illustrious Way. When a man has achieved the inner self and harmony, the heaven and earth are orderly and the myriad of things are nourished and grow thereby.”

Men World Way Self Earth Joy Culture Given Heaven Grows Sadness Degrees Harmony Foundation Tao Inner Self Heaven And Earth Orderly

Author:Confucius

“Acting for me was an escape and it wasn't until Smoke Signals that made me realize that acting is a personal development and challenge to grow. Smoke Signals really mirrored the way I grew up and how I felt, and that movie was the first time I'd dealt with my parents' death and how I felt that loss and sadness and anger. After that movie I said, "Y'know what, I have to realistically wear my emotions now when I do a job. That's gotta be as real as it gets. It's not just dialogue anymore."”

“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.”

People Ifs Way Life Young Certain Turns Grows Felt Challenges Wonder Break Failing Happened Sadness Broken Depression Surprise I Realized Lovely Fixed Life Lesson People In Your Life

Book:Life After God

Source: Life After God

“Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace but also the bad ear and flawed figure of her mother, that would smile too much and squint too often and spend the last decades of her life creaming away the wrinkles made in youth until she finally gave up and wore a collar of pears to hide a wattle; here was the ordinary sadness of the world.”

World Made Lasts Beautiful Mother Turns Grows Loses Too Much Grace Sadness Figures Youth Ordinary Ears Decades Flawed Gave Up Wrinkles Collars Pears

Book:The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel

Source: The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel

“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”

Source: Taggerung

“I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.”

People Life Is Lying Grows Parent Sadness Regret Hair Spending Temples More Time Passages Castles I Regret Passage Of Time Old Life

Author:Shan Sa

“Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent.”

Knows Way Littles Moments Feelings Joy Grows Greater Sadness Silent Endure Shy Midst Something New Stillness Mute Perplexity

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it happens too quick. I think the historical background that build into our genes is different. American people has never been occupied. The deep sadness and sentimentality, the cultural background that relates to melodrama that we relate to and grow up with, the propaganda, I didn't imagine the difference is so big. It's a very interesting cultural phenomenon.”

“No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they do not exist except in my mind I have a feeling of sadness, looking around for them, as if the half-empty cafe were a place I had once come to with friends who had all moved away.”

People Ifs Mind Real Feelings Grows Realizing Half Novel Sadness Empty Moved Living Things Cafes Half Empty

Author:Mavis Gallant

“Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that 's gone; Violets plucked, the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again.”

Grows Gone Sadness Tears Sorrow Rain Sigh Violet Sweetest

Book:The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions

Source: The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.”

Heart Grows Sadness Tears Rain Absence Making Love Love Grows Absence Makes The Heart Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

Author:Ray Charles

“You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.”

Grows Sadness Garden Woe

Author:Joni Mitchell