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“Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair.”

Stills Stars Silence Sadness Healthy Quiet Stones Breaths Rounds Sat Gray Noon Fiery Shady Saturn

Author:John Keats

“'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head.”

Trying Hands Strong Sadness Feet Sad Stones Weight Rose Dust Hills Sweat Torment Limbs Monstrous Brows Pouring Grasping Over The Top Shameless Sisyphus Hands And Feet

Book:The Odyssey of Homer: Several Versions

Source: The Odyssey of Homer: Several Versions

“The tiniest criticism or put-down soaks into me and lies in my heart like a stone. Sometimes that spurs me on to work harder, but sometimes it just fills me up with sadness.”

Heart Sometimes Lying Sadness Hard Work My Heart Stones Criticism Harder Work Harder Spurs

Book:Chocolate Box Girls: Summer's Dream

Source: Chocolate Box Girls: Summer's Dream

“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”

“Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart of man. By this tenuous thread of living protoplasm, stretching backward into time, we are linked forever to lost beaches whose sands have long since hardened into stone. The stars that caught our blind amphibian stare have shifted far or vanished in their courses, but still that naked, glistening thread winds onward. No one knows the secret of its beginning or its end. Its forms are phantoms. The thread alone is real; the thread is life.”

Source: The Firmament of Time: A Library of America eBook Classic

“The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains. And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run. The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn, And sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain-king’s return!”

“We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime.”

Way Mind Force Sea Sadness Wall Drug Depression Stones Lifetime Alcohol Denial Internals Overwhelming Medication Sadness Of Life Work Family Overwhelming Force

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.”

Father Dark Party Sadness Stones Palms

Book:The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

“This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]”

Stills Sadness Huge Stones Pockets

Author:Dani Shapiro

“We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this—through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication—we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. One of the most difficult problems is to construct these barriers of such a height and strength that one has a true harbor, a sanctuary away from crippling turmoil and pain, but yet low enough, and permeable enough, to let in fresh seawater that will fend off the inevitable inclination toward brackishness.”

“If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies, ideas - all dead. All movements are one great standstill. Nothing means anything to me, not because it's unfamiliar but because I don't know what it is. The world has slipped away. And in the bottom of my soul - as the only reality of this moment - there's an intense and invisible grief, a sadness like the sound of someone crying in a dark room.”

“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

“A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart.”

Heart Sadness Broken Cold Amount Stones Contrary Unbelievable Vitality Lifeless Stone Cold

Book:Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow

Source: Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow