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“My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.”

Source: A Boy's Will

“Life consists of two sides ... light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life.”

Wells Two Light Joy Sides Dark Balance Sorrow Two Sides Light And Dark Joys And Sorrows Well Rounded

Author:JoAnn Ross

“T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.”

Heart Hours Dark Prayer Gone Sorrow Infant Dark Hours

Author:Nathaniel Parker Willis

“The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty in form as untrue and broken as itself.”

Soul Form Spirit Universe Dark Broken Sorrow Shadow Shattered Untrue External Beauty

Book:Is it Possible to Make the Best of Both Worlds?: A Book for Young Men

Source: Is it Possible to Make the Best of Both Worlds?: A Book for Young Men

“There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.”

Heart Dark Poor Grief Flower Sorrow Spring Graves Graveyard

Book:Infelicia [poems].

Source: Infelicia [poems].

“Past, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy.... Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one-the knowledge and the dream.”

Two Dream Past Moving Joy Lines Dark Known Periods Sorrow Eternity Disappointment Prosperity Yesterday Division Imaginary Acquaintance Fractions Morrow

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“All things are dark to sorrow.”

Dark Sorrow All Things

Book:Inez: A Tale of the Alamo

Source: Inez: A Tale of the Alamo

“Unwearied, and with springing steps elate, I had conveyed my wealth along the road. The empty sack proved now a heavier load: I was borne down beneath its worthless weight. I stumbled on, and knocked at Death's dark gate. There was no answer. Stung by sorrow's goad I forced my way into that grim abode, And laughed, and flung Life's empty sack to Fate.”

Way Wealth Dark Answers Steps Fate Sadness Sorrow Sad Empty Weight My Way Gates Laughed Load Worthless Grim Abode

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

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

“I am so thankful I had the strength and promises of a loving God to guide my choices and decisions, and to uphold me through the unbelievably dark days and times of overwhelming sorrow.”

Choices Dark Decision Sorrow Promise Guides Overwhelming Loving God Dark Days Choices And Decisions

Author:Zig Ziglar

“When my daughter Paula died, I was in the deepest pain, and my mother said, "This kind of sorrow is like a long, narrow, dark channel. You have to walk this channel alone and be sure that there is light at the other ending. Just keep walking."”

Kind Long Said Light Pain Mother Dark Walks Walking Sorrow Daughter Died My Daughter

Author:Isabel Allende

“He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky.”

Eye Faces Dark Rooms Sky Effects Figures Pride Sorrow Red Passionate Storm Instant Autumn Resolution Pale Glimpse Gathering Gloom Dark Eyes

Book:A Long Fatal Love Chase

Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase

“Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.”

Eye Joy Lying Dark Wonderful Generations Sorrow Laughter Depth Loyalty Aspiration Gray Joys And Sorrows Sod

Book:The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more

Source: The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more

“His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow.”

Hands Eye Left Dark Tears Sorrow Blue Paint Cheeks Swollen Dark Blue Left Eye

Book:Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness.”

Today Dark Perfect Forever Sorrow Shadow Mirrors Wedding Reflecting Brightness Perfect Days

Author:Jacqueline Carey

“War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It is dark. It is dreadful. It is a thing of sorrow and gloom. That is why people fear war. That is why people choose to avoid it. ~Izuru Kira”

People War Dark Sorrow Despair Heroic Gloom Exhilarating Bleach Kira

Author:Tite Kubo

“My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the same - but I want to hear words! Remember that when you are looking for the right words: You must ask yourself what they SOUND like! Glowing with passion, dark with sorrow, sweet with love, that's what I want. - Cosimo”

Knows Want Seems Remember Passion Asks Father Felt Sound Dark Wife Written Sweet Sorrow Paper Sticks My Wife Glowing Written Word Right Words Wives Love

Author:Cornelia Funke

“Easy to see that naught save sorrow could bring a man to such a view of things. And yet a sorrow for which there can be no help is no sorrow. It is some dark sister traveling in sorrow's clothing. Men do not turn from God so easily you see. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of Him.”

Knows Men Believe Helping Turns Easy Dark Views Existence Imagine Terrible Sorrow Believe In God Clothings Terrible Things Unspeakable

Book:The Border Trilogy

Source: The Border Trilogy

“Dear Angel Juan, You used to guard my sleep like a panther biting back my pain with the edge of your teeth. You carried me into the dark dream jungle, loping past the hungry vines, crossing the shiny fish-scale river. We left my tears behind in a chiming silver pool. We left my sorrow in the muddy hollows. When I woke up you were next to me, damp and matted, your eyes hazy, trying to remember the way I clung to you, how far down we went. Was the journey too far, Angel Juan? Did we go too far?”

Source: Beautiful Boys: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop

“Nah, you always look good. As for me … well, it's hard to explain. The auras are getting to me. There's so much sorrow around here. You can't even begin to understand. It radiates from everyone on a spiritual level. It's overwhelming. It makes your dark aura downright cheerful.”

Wells Looks Hard Spiritual Dark Levels Sorrow Overwhelming Cheerful Auras Vampire Academy

Book:Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel

Source: Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel

“I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds.”

Stills Eye Faces Form Parent Dark Sorrow Bird Prepared Brown Bereavement Sibling Flocks Luminous Brown Eyes Rue Younger Siblings

Book:Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

“The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true-- not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon’s, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.”

Men Two Book Earth Joy Sides Dark Sun Fine Sorrow Ocean Thirds Being True Mortals Steel Woe Truest Dark Side Solomon Hammered Ecclesiastes

Book:Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)

Source: Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)

“Sylvia's dark eyes widened. "You are more than you appear to be" "Yes. I am a monster of Darkness, a beast," he agreed with her. Her lips tilted up. "Can a beast weep in sorrow? Does darkness have the capacity to feel loneliness? I think not.”

Thinking Feels Doe Eye Dark Darkness Loneliness Sorrow Capacity Lips Monsters Beast Dark Eyes

Author:P. C. Cast

“Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; For as your tears, and sorrow-wounded soul, Prove well that on your part this bond is whole, So all we know of what they do above, Is that they happy are, and that they love. Let dark oblivion, and the hollow grave, Content themselves our frailer thoughts to have; Well-chosen love is never taught to die, But with our nobler part invades the sky.”

Source: Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell

“Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.”

Love Dark Love Is Missing Sorrow Absence Poetic Far Away Verses Weary Missing You Dreary I Miss You Missed You I Missed You Your Absence Missing You Love Absence Love Missing Her

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today”

Source: Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation

“God, make me brave for life: oh, braver than this. Let me straighten after pain, As a tree straightens after the rain, Shining and lovely again. God, make me brave for life; much braver than this. As the blown grass lifts, let me rise From sorrow with quiet eyes, Knowing Thy way is wise. God, make me brave, life brings Such blinding things. Help me to keep my sight; Help me to see aright That out of dark comes light.”

Way Helping Light Eye Pain Dark Darkness Knowing Wise Tree Sorrow Quiet Rain Let Me Sight Bravery Shining Brave Lovely Lifts Grass Help Me After The Rain

Author:Grace Noll Crowell

“There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.”

Stills Heaven Sound Dark Sorrow Shadow Rivers Clouds Pale Gleam

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“It's a physical urge, huger and stronger than thirst or sex. Halfway back on the left side of my head there is a spot that yearns, that longs, that pleads for the jolt of a bullet. I want that rage, that fire, that final empty rip. I want to be let out of this dark cavern, to open myself up to the ease of not-living. I am tired of sorrow and struggle and worry. ... I want to turn out the last light.”

Want Light Lasts Turns Left Sex Sides Dark Worry Struggle Fire Sorrow Empty Stronger Tired Finals Rage Spots Ease Urges Bullets Thirst Suicidal Halfway Rip Caverns

Author:Jean Hegland