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“But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.”

Women Grief Sadness Sad Summer Storm Violent

Book:The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie

Source: The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie

“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.”

Years Whole Lasts Beautiful Felt Sadness Duty Summer Spread Autumn Cricket Rumor Summertime Beautiful Day Whole Year

Author:E. B. White

“I knew it the first of the summer, I knew it the same at the end, That you and your love were plighted, But couldn't you be my friend?”

Firsts Ends Sadness Sad Summer My Friends

Book:Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.”

Feels Fall Sadness Summer Smell Smoke Unexpected Autumn Fades Thrill October Departure Nervousness Fall Autumn Fall Season Elation Autumn Season Sharpness October And Fall Summer To Fall

Author:Thomas Wolfe

“So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and the plants are wilted, weary from being so green.”

Feels Kind Ends Felt Gone Sadness Childhood Havens Summer Green Plant Brands Weary Ponds Firefly End Of Summer

Book:Dry: A Memoir

Source: Dry: A Memoir

“They held me and told me everything would be fine, that sadness would rise from our bones and evaporate in sunlight the way morning fog burned off the river in summer. My mother rubbed the kites on my hands and arms and told me to think of my lungs as balloons. I just want to feel safe, I said.”

Thinking Way Want Feels Said Hands Would Be Mother Morning Sadness Arms Fine Safe Summer Rivers Bones Sunlight Burned Fog Lungs Balloons Kites

Book:Light Boxes: A Novel

Source: Light Boxes: A Novel

“Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a twinge of sadness. He should be at Camp Half-Blood right now, settling into his cabin for the summer, teaching sword-fighting lessons in the arena, playing pranks on the other counselors. These kids had no idea just how crazy a summer camp could be.”

“Life is possible only through challenges. Life is possible only when you have both good weather and bad weather, when you have both pleasure and pain, when you have both winter and summer, day and night. When you have both sadness and happiness, discomfort and comfort. Life moves between these two polarities. Moving between these two polarities you learn how to balance. Between these two wings you learn how to fly to the farthest star.”

“And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it before. Full of birdsong and summer perfumes, full of strange glimpses and intimations just out of the corner of my eye, of longings and sadness and undefined hopes.It has a name, this sweet disturbance. Its name is Lamorna.”

Eye Song Names Air Sadness Changed Strange Sweet Summer Bird Longing Corners Evening Glimpse Perfume Disturbance Things Have Changed Birdsong Undefined Bird Song

Author:Michael Frayn

“You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.”

Pain Study Sadness Streets Praying Lovers Waste Summer Rain Crosses Rose Vain Savior These Streets

Author:Bruce Springsteen