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“He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust.”

Giving Looks Heart Has Beens Feelings Spirit Hours Pleasure Forever Sorrow Debt Graves Dust Instant Companionship Lowest Departed Unkindness

Book:Modern Painters

Source: Modern Painters

“The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust.”

Heart Remember Sorrow Lips Tales Dust

Author:James Kenneth Stephen

“It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.”

Should Joy Spirit Literature Alive Impossible Sorrow Active Cease Dust Organized Restless Joys And Sorrows Restless Spirit

Book:Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Source: Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

“No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth”

Men Writing Matter Eye Earth Speak Sorrow Comfort Paper Graves Dust Worms Bosoms Rainy Epitaph

Author:William Shakespeare

“Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”

Men Ends Dream Interest Sorrow Dust Foul Elation Great Gatsby Gatsby Great Gatsby Book Great Gatsby Important Great Gatsby Nick Great Gatsby American Dream Great Gatsby Nick Carraway

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust - ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.”

Should Heart Moments Dream Together Life Is Joy Spirit Alive Impossible Ready Sorrow Spring Active Cease Dust Sparks Restless Snaps Organised Joys And Sorrows Restless Spirit

Book:Letters from Scandinavia

Source: Letters from Scandinavia

“Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.”

Heart Helping Lost Forget Sorrow Bigger Guilt Dear Tiny Dust Help Me Galaxy God Help Dear God Specks Meaninglessness Forget Me God Help Me

Author:Anne Rice

“For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life—uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.”

Heart Made Self Eye Earth Heaven Virtue Clear Tears Sweet Sorrow Smell Genuine Dust Remembered Forgetfulness True Success Self Forgetfulness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)