“But to everything in this world there comes an end; there even comes an end to the torments suffered in those intermediate states of transition when the last secret tear of one's soul is bitterly swallowed, and the crisis passes, resolving itself into some new sort of phase, which even as it comes into existence is fated in turn to pass away, to disappear in the eternal changing of the times and seasons.” WorldSoulEndsStatesLastsTurnsSecretExistenceThis WorldTearsEternalSeasonsCrisisDisappearTransitionPhasesTormentPassing Away Book:How It All Began: The Prison Novel Source: How It All Began: The Prison Novel
“The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life. All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts” HeartCharacterArtistSufferingSocialGrowsReligiousSecretLeaderStruggleTearsDeeperGreat ArtBleedingGreat ArtistReformersSecret LifeReligious LeadersBleeding HeartGreat Religious Author:D.T. Suzuki
“Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.” MenGivingShouldHeartEyePrayerSecretTearsHe ManWeakPocketsLoyalBoastDewParadesImposterPharisees Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.” GivingPainLife IsSecretExistenceTearsInfiniteProtectionShirtsIronThreadT ShirtResignationReconcileFablesSpun Author:Soren Kierkegaard