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“No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?”

Years Two Ends Education Sorrow Thousand Endless Thousand Years

Author:Billy Joel

“Endless sorrow has fallen upon my heart.”

Heart My Heart Sorrow Endless Fallen

Author:Olympia Brown

“Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.”

Giving Evil Sorrow Comfort Blessing Add Endless Flight Ruins Injury Instruction

Book:The New Dictionary of Thoughts

Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts

“There is no sorrow under heaven which is, or ought to be, endless. To believe or to make it so, is an insult to Heaven itself.”

Believe Heaven Ought Sorrow Endless Insult

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason.”

Feels Reason Would Be Care Opinion Sorrow Tasks Endless Variety Prevailing Meanness

Book:The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft

Source: The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft

“Nothing is ever truly gone... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow." -Hem at Zelika's grave”

Humans Joy Human Beings Gone Source Sorrow Graves Endless Guests Enchantment Hem

Author:Alison Croggon

“These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only a bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit urge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows, breakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master. But we two, sitting here in the shelter, eating and drinking, shall entertain each other remembering and retelling our sad sorrows. For afterwards a man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.”

“The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows. But stories all...”

Stories Would Be Joy Wonder Journey Land Possibility Sorrow Battle Endless

Book:Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

Source: Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

“It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.”

Feels Reason Would Be Care Justice Opinion Sorrow Diversity Weakness Tasks Social Justice Endless Variety Charm Prevailing Meanness

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft