“I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain, Who hunger on through barren years not tasting joys they crave, For sadder far is such a lot than weeping o'er a grave.” YearsHeartSoulPainJoyPassionPoorBreakSadnessSadSorryHungerGravesI'm SorryStrainCraveWeepingBarrenTasting Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics) Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.” WorldEnoughEarthLaughingTroubleSadnessSadLaughterWeepingBeing AloneMirthPunctualityPunctualSadness Of Life Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” MenLoveHeartArtRealArtistStuffSadnessFoolSadHappyLost LoveBeing HappyWeepingGood HeartPure HeartBig HeartReal Heart Author:Clive Barker
“Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.” ThinkingStillsPiecesSadnessSolitaryWeepingConsoleCharcoal Book:One Hundred Years of Solitude Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets, and this sadness I feel has taken from me the taste of language, so that I cannot say the flavor of my being apart.” FeelsMindSoulLeftLanguageGriefExistenceTakenSadnessSkyTasteAngelAbsenceProphetFlavorWeepingMourn Author:Rumi
“If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.” IfsGriefSadnessTearsSorrowGoldRaisesMiseryHealWeeping Author:Sophocles