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“Tears are perhaps 1% water but 99% emotions. They contain hurt, pain, sorrow, disappointment, sadness… so cry sometimes and let go of the feelings welling in your heart. Crying won't necessarily solve your problems but it will make you feel better.”

Feels Heart Sometimes Feelings Problem Pain Water Hurt Emotion Sadness Cry Tears Sorrow Letting Go Disappointment Solve Feel Better Hurt Pain

Author:Rita Zahara

“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”

Ifs Water Sadness Sad Depression Kicks Temper Kick Ass Self Injury

Author:John Keats

“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.”

“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

“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

“The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was sorrowful. It sang with yearning and sadness, flowing towards its goal ... Siddhartha was now listening intently...to this song of a thousand voices ... then the great song of a thousand voices consisted of one word: Om - Perfection ... From that hour Siddhartha ceased to fight against his destiny.”

Song Fighting Goal Voice Water Hours Destiny Saws Sadness Listening Thousand Rain Rivers Perfection Yearning One Word Sorrowful Siddhartha Flowing Water

Author:Hermann Hesse

“There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As it crossed the cold water, it lost its fervour. Instead of valour or gallantry, you could hear the sadness of a soul parting with everything that it loved, calling on its nearest and dearest to wake up, to lift their head from their pillows and hear for the last time the voice of a father, a husband, a son or a brother...”

Long Soul Lasts Father Lost Voice Water Sadness Cry Son Brother Cold Terrible Calling Husband Wake Up Lifts Melancholy Last Time Parting Pillow Cold Water Infantry Valour Gallantry

Author:Vasily Grossman

“You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.”

Ifs Way May Has Beens Might Difficult Black Water Fire Sadness Sad Smoke Landscape Department Over You Distracted Damp Fire Department

Author:Daniel Handler

“When we are upset, it’s easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a glass of water. Now, imagine past negative experiences as sediment at the bottom of your glass. Next, think of others as spoons. When one stirs, the sediment clouds your water. It may appear that the spoon caused the water to cloud – but if there were no sediment, the water would remain clear no matter what. The key, then, is to identify our sediment and actively work to remove it.”

“I was the one with the open wound, and the river waters turned red when I bathed in them. My sadness is greater than the heavens.”

Heaven Water Greater Sadness Red Rivers Wounds

Author:Laura Restrepo

“Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.”

Today Water Behinds Gone Growing Sadness Seeds Yesterday Tales Each Day Flowing Water Yesterday Is Gone

Author:Rumi

“Reminiscences of old, dried-over pains were no consolation in the face of this. They had the effect of cold beads of water on a hot iron - they danced and fizzled up while the room stank from their steam.”

Pain Death Water Loss Sadness Depression Metaphor Mourning Iron Wrong

Book:The Women of Brewster Place

Source: The Women of Brewster Place