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“I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.”

People Feels Writing Hate Felt Loses Compassion Loneliness Sorrow Forgiving

Author:Louise Penny

“The only thing pain can wring from a soul that has abandoned resistance and from a mind that has lost its hate is sorrow”

Mind Soul Pain Hate Lost Sorrow Resistance Abandoned

Author:Yi Mun-yol

“To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.”

Joy Hate Wise Sorrow Ambition Pity Indifferent Humiliation Being Wise Love And Hate Joys And Sorrows

Author:Michael Ende

“So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It is not because the wretched thing is so ugly and silly and useless that I ask you to cast it from you; it is much more because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them; look through them and see all that has gone to their fashioning, and you will see how vain labour, and sorrow, and disgrace have been their companions from the first-and all this for trifles that no man really needs!”

Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

“Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away is money in the bank. When you're suffering you can't create.”

Suffering Hate Sorrow Stress Lifts Filmmaker Tension Negativity Retreat

Author:David Lynch

“The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light. Many students have so much torment, stress, depression, sorrow and hate in them these days, but then they get this technique and the negativity starts to go away. They start to feel good because the torment is leaving. Their health gets better and they get happier, their comprehension and their ability to focus grow, their grades go up and a joy for life grows; all of which comes from within.”

“For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.”

Heart Suffering Hate Literature Vision Seeing Sorrow Disease Hatred Burden Poison

Author:Aeschylus

“Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.”

“Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.”

Men Problem Reality Joy Hate Emotion Sorrow Authority Standards Illusion Rage Lust Inward Love Hate Judicial Precedent Statutes Love Lust

Book:Cicero, De Oratore: In Two Volumes

Source: Cicero, De Oratore: In Two Volumes

“I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even.”

Ifs Mother Hate Balance Sorrow Treated Bores Agony Don't Hate Bores You Hate Her

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)

“Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.”

Joy Hate Alive Cold Sorrow Selfish Indifferent Detached Unselfish Lifeless Being Selfish Unconcerned

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to the very soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.”

People Thinking Doe Soul Joy Hate Literature Sorrow Conversation Importance I Hate My Soul Relate Bores Seriousness Joys And Sorrows

Author:Franz Kafka

“I hate her." Merlin laughed, tossing the stick down. "Not so. You have forgotten how to love. That's a different sorrow.”

Different Hate Sorrow I Hate Sticks Forgotten Laughed How To Love Hate Her I Hate Her

Author:Catherine Fisher

“I sent my ex-husband a bully card: You held hate in one heart and spoke niceties with the other, you laid warm hands upon me in public and wounded me in private, your noble face hid your filthy ways, and your sorrow was but laughter.”

Way Heart Hands Faces Hate Sorrow Husband Laughter Warm Noble Cards Spokes Bullying Wounded Bully Exes Filthy Niceties Ex Husband

Author:Jenny Jay

“It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite points of view. How we shall experience it depends upon the way we shall come up against it: God does not change; it is man's moral state that changes. The wrath of God is a figure of speech to denote God's unchanging opposition to sin; it is His righteous love operating to destroy evil. It is not evil that will have the last word, but good; not sorrow, but joy; not hate, but love.”