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“All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy - and that is as well, for one could not bear it - whose grief is that the principals never met.”

Wells Has Beens Play Deals Grief Fate Bears Sorrow Mets Tragedy Meetings Triumph Rejoice Principal Strokes

Book:The Mask of Apollo

Source: The Mask of Apollo

“I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.”

Mind States Joy Deals Sorrow Currents Affected State Of Mind Sad Things

Author:Luise Rainer

“Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.”

Knows Humans Kind Death Suffering Easy Loss Animal Deals Grief Healing Attitude Sorrow Singers Life And Death Enabling Pet Loss Dealing With Death

Author:Emmylou Harris

“The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.”

Deals Sorrow Contradiction Deceit Aphorism

Author:Mason Cooley

“Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.”

Able Realizing Deals Sorrow Deeds Buddhist

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy was just overwhelming to me as a little kid. It was the real deal.”

People Littles Real Kids Joy Black Deals Emotion Heard Sorrow Built Overwhelming Black People Little Kid

Author:Steve Young

“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”

World Mind Littles Soul Feelings Eye School Strong Given Hurt Deals Behinds Sorrow Diversity Social Justice Busy My Soul Dirty Knives Too Busy Oysters Lurking Sobbing Sharpening

Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.”

Men Joy Deals Known Periods Sorrow Defeat Casts Bitter Old Man

Book:Letters, Selected and Edited by Elting E. Morison

Source: Letters, Selected and Edited by Elting E. Morison

“what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.”

Ifs Looks Joy Suffering Winning Loss Deals Balance Sorrow Appreciate Illness Define You

Author:Mark Twain

“If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.”

People Ifs World Years Would Be Speak Deals Honesty Sorrow Hundred Dare Life And Love

Book:The Way of All Flesh

Source: The Way of All Flesh

“When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told me to be strong, but I confused to see it so weak You say never to give up, and it hurts to see what comes to be When your hero falls soley the stars, and so does the reception of tomorrow Without my hero, theres only me alone, to deal with my sorrow Your heart ceases to work, and your soul is not happy at all What are you expected to do, when your only hero falls”

“I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast into a pond - the ripples stretch far. Such an act must leave a burden of sorrow, guilt, shame and confusion on an entire family. A natural death, such as my father suffered, is hard enough to deal with. A decision to end one's life must be still more devastating for those left behind. I cannot imagine the degree of hopelessness someone must feel to contemplate such an act.”

“Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then you’re equipped to deal with its sorrows and its surprises. If you persist in expecting it to give you something it can’t give, that just proves that you haven’t understood anything. Take things as they come; don’t turn them into a drama. You’re not piloting the ship, you’re following the course of your destiny.”

“As for inflicting our sorrow on other people, one does not want to go around blathering and crying all the time. But perhaps it is our gift to others to trust them enough to share our feelings with them. It may help them deal with some of their own.”

People Want May Doe Enough Helping Feelings Deals Healing Share Cry Sorrow

Author:Martha Whitmore Hickman