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“Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.”

World Home Joy Purpose Sorrow Shapes Pursuit Consolation Amplify

Author:Roger Scruton

“Bright flower! whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year through the heir Of joy or sorrow, Methinks that there abides in thee Some concord with humanity, Given to no other flower I see The forest through.”

Years Long Home Care Joy Humanity Given Flower Sorrow Forests Thee Heirs

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“Sorrow, the heart must bear, Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. Many a circumstance, at least, Touches the very breast. For those Whom any sent away,--he knows: And in the live man's stead, Armor and ashes reach The house of each.”

Knows Men Heart Home House Bears Circumstances Sorrow Breasts Ashes Armor

Book:The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.

Source: The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.

“The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the kiss as I lie down to rest, the patient bearing with the freaks of my restless nature, the gentle counsels mingled with reproofs and approvals, the sympathy that meets and assuages every sorrow, and sweetens every little success--all these return to me amid the responsibilities which press upon me now, and I feel as if I had once lived in heaven, and, straying, had lost my way.”

“It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace.”

Home One Thing Security Objects Sorrow Angel Bounds Dear Affection Ease Pluck Vanishing True Home

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Try to comprehend the unity of all; there is one God, and all are one in Him. If we can but bring home to ourselves the unity of that Eternal Love, there will be no more sorrow for us; for we shall realize, not for ourselves alone but for those whom we love, that whether we live or die, we are the Lord's, and that in Him we live and move and have our being, whether it be in this world or in the world to come.”

Ifs World Trying Home Moving Dies Realizing Lord This World Sorrow Eternal Unity Eternal Love

Book:The Science of the Sacraments

Source: The Science of the Sacraments

“The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life.”

Giving Firsts Humans Heart Home School Form Joy Social Interest Existence Responsibility Virtue Tears Sorrow Relation Chiefs Human Life Ties Fountain Solicitude

Book:Essays, Literary & Political

Source: Essays, Literary & Political

“When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, then we shall look back to pains and sufferings and then we will see life and sorrow to be less than one step or stride from a prison to glory. Our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome-home to heaven.”

“We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.”

World Home Night Saws Minutes Sorrow Ten Flash

Author:Leo Szilard

“He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.”

Love Children Home Marriage Wife Sorrow Wedding Nests Lioness

Book:The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings

Source: The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings

“Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.”

Art Stills Home Seems Eye Lasts Sorrow Climate Ireland Glimpse Exile Bosoms Erin

Book:The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore Including His Melodies, Ballads, Etc: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore Including His Melodies, Ballads, Etc: Complete in One Volume

“Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”

Long I Can Stories Home Feminism Sorrow Heartbreak Chaos Classic Defeated Beaten Back Home Being A Woman Heart Break

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Later, going home, I realized they didn't look alike at all; what made them seem to was the aftermath of stress and the lingering of sorrow. It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”

Looks Made Home Seems Pain Faces Strange Sorrow Stress Mark I Realized Aftermath Lingering Going Home Like Family

Book:Coffey's Hands

Source: Coffey's Hands

“Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with sorrow and marvel at its journey, which was tenderness for his own journey. In India almost nobody would be able to afford this rice, and you had to travel around the world to be able to eat such things where they were cheap enough that you could gobble them down without being rich; and when you got home to the place where they grew, you couldn't afford them anymore.”

World Way Enough Home Would Be Able Rich Journey Grew Sorrow India Around The World Tenderness Insects Rice Being Rich

Author:Kiran Desai

“Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.”

Way Self Home Father Forget Steps Tears Arms Sorrow Mark Repentance Loathing Self Loathing Way Home Prodigals

Book:George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more

Source: George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more

“But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.”

Stories Home Evil Sorrow Glory Rounds Dawn Remembered Estates Mourn Robes Morrow Monarchs Desolate Old Time Evil Things

Book:Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe:

Source: Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe:

“exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement.”

Source: Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays

“And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.”

Way Heart Home Cities Sky Strange My Heart Sorrow Kissing Bus Flavor Ache Melting Bittersweet Sleepy Loveliness Kites Swaying Uptown

Author:Donna Tartt

“The truly happiest, sweetest, tenderest homes are not those where there has been no sorrow, but those which have been overshadowed with grief, and where Christ's comfort was accepted. The very memory of the sorrow is a gentle benediction that broods ever over the household, like the afterglow of sunset, like the silence that comes after prayer.”

Has Beens Home Christ Memories Prayer Grief Silence Sorrow Comfort Blessing Burden Accepted Gentle Household Sweetest Benediction

Author:J.R. Miller

“A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and respect. We are responsible for the homes we build. We must build wisely, for eternity is not a short voyage. There will be calm and wind, sunlight and shadows, joy and sorrow. But if we really try, our home can be a bit of heaven here on earth. The thoughts we think, the deeds we do, the lives we live not only influence the success of our earthly journey, they also mark the way to our eternal goals.”