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“An autumn garden has a sadness when the sun is not shining.”

Sun Sadness Garden Shining Autumn

Author:Francis Brett Young

“In the midday sun, a bright light will be barely noticed. Yet in the darkest night, even the smallest light can make an enormous difference.”

Light Night Differences Sun Sadness Sad Enormous Smallest Bright Lights

Author:Ralph Marston

“When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding what you said about the speaker identifying with the bear: I'm not sure it's exactly right to say that the speaker feels that the bear must share his sadness, or whatever else he is feeling. That would be classic pathetic fallacy, which is certainly generative for poetry, but here the speaker appears actually to be rejecting that idea.”

Feels Said Ideas Feelings Would Be Sun Saws Sadness Share Bears Classic Not Sure Speakers Pathetic Fallacy Zoos Identifying Rejecting Oakland Ornery

Author:Matthew Zapruder

“There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.”

“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!”

“I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.”

“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

“Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.”

Heart Pain Vision Sun Sadness Cups Warrior Tea Eastern Cups Of Tea Samsara

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins like slender bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day that ever was and he was riding to his death.”

World Faces Turns Sun Sadness Bones Lovely Yellow Riding Dread Leafs Veins Veils Slender

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”

Inspirational Stills Beautiful Sleep Morning Audience Sun Sadness Sad Noble Every Morning I Hate You Don't Be Sad

Author:John Lennon

“Emotions are lovely. Even if they fall to the negative for a time. The sun will rise again another day. The sadness perhaps never forgotten, but a new day enjoyed in another way. A way that could not have been but for the sadness’s existence.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Fall Emotion Existence Sun Sadness Negative Forgotten Lovely Enjoyed Another Way New Day Another Day

Author:Anne Mallory

“I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.”

Looks Hands Lasts Faces Turns Father Silence Sun Fire Sadness Mouths Fairs Graves Setting Settings Hunting Smooth

Book:The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North-American Indians, by Geo. Catlin: With Four Hundred Illustrations, Etched and Outlined, from His Original Paintings Now Exhibiting in His Indian Museum, Egyptian Hall, London

Source: The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North-American Indians, by Geo. Catlin: With Four Hundred Illustrations, Etched and Outlined, from His Original Paintings Now Exhibiting in His Indian Museum, Egyptian Hall, London

“I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky.”

Life Inspirational Sound Nature Memories Behinds Sun Sadness Sky Sweet Sorrow Mountain Findings Singing Rivers Leaving Happy Shade Making Love Finding Happiness Riverside

Author:John Denver

“For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.”

Heart May Light Seems Sun Taken Sadness Sorrow Sad Moon Window Gold Seasons Blue Glasses Cells Iron Spheres Twilight Grey Creeps Niggard Blue And Gold

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

“Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.”

Needs Mind Light Night Causes Sun Gone Sadness Tomorrow Sorrow Don't Be Sad

Author:James Taylor