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“If we really face our sadness, we find it speaks with the voice of our deepest longing. And if we face it a little longer we find that it teaches us the way to attain what we long for.”

Ifs Way Littles Long Faces Speak Voice Teach Sadness Longing

Book:In the Dark Places of Wisdom

Source: In the Dark Places of Wisdom

“Wiped the cold dew-drops from his cheek And sought the mourner's side again. "Once more, dear lady, I must speak: Your last remaining son was slain Just at the closing of the fight; Twas he who sent me here to-night." "God knows," the man said afterward, "The fight itself was not so hard."”

Knows Men Said Hard Lasts Night Fighting Speak Sides Sadness He Man Son Cold Sad Dear Cheeks God Knows Closing Dew

Book:Picked Poems

Source: Picked Poems

“When the Pleiadians speak of letting go, they transmit a letting go energy through our energetic field. As a human being, we've been holding on for lifetimes, really holding on to the illusion strongly, holding on to the shame, the guilt, the sadness, all the things we've lived through, all the experiences we have allowed ourselves to create for ourselves in order to learn. We've held on to the pieces of us - the anger, the frustration and the pain.”

Humans Pain Order Energy Speak Human Beings Pieces Sadness Fields Letting Go Illusion Shame Guilt Lifetime Frustration Holding On Energetic Transmit

Author:Christine McCormick Day

“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.”

Thinking Life Facts Suffering Literature Speak Grief Sadness Reflection Shadow Misery Endless Each Day Misers Live Each Day Grief Observed Keeping A Journal

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”

“The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.”

“We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.”

Stories Speak Sadness Diminish Curb Deliberation Coolness

Author:Matthew Tobin Anderson

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”

Love Inspirational Religion Speak Hurt Silence Sadness Sad Misery I Have Learned I Was Hurt Hurt And Pain

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itself that shows in the gesture, notwithstanding any sadness the divers may actually feel. When someone jumps into the water fully clothed, it is another thing entirely: the only person who jumps into the water fully clothed is a person trying to drown; and a person trying to drown does not dive headfirst; he lets himself fall: thus speaks the immemorial language of gestures.”

People Feels Trying May Persons Doe Shows Joy Fall Speak Language Water Sadness Function Intention Practicals Suits Gestures Exceed Fling Bathing Bathing Suits

Author:Milan Kundera

“One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.”

Doe Left Speak Sound Air Sadness Loneliness Despair Winter Branches Unhappiness Leafs Breeze Swaying

Book:Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994

Source: Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994

“If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well.”

Ifs Should Wells Self Speak Voice Known Break Gone Hell Sadness Flower Goes On Sad Stones Sunday Funeral Usual Parting Life Goes On

Book:Joyce

Source: Joyce

“When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.”

Seems Joy Speak Sadness Gay Wave Echoes Hopelessness Pettiness Gaiety

Book:The Scarlet Pimpernel

Source: The Scarlet Pimpernel

“Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with feelings.”

Love Looks Feelings Speak Sadness Sad Hurt Feelings Feeling Sad

Author:Anna Karina

“He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness and death. Why did I speak of him in the past? He laughed, he is laughing, he is here. It's your sadness, idiot, he'd say.”

Past Speak Laughing Sadness Tough Negative Affection Illness Disappointment Idiot Laughed Resentment Affirmation Fins Nihilist Illness And Death

Author:Jean-Francois Lyotard