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“Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms.”

“If Christians would have the same faith in their God that non-Christians have in a mere materialistic idea, 'Thy Kingdom come' would shortly be a reality in this world of sorrow and travail.”

Ifs World Ideas Reality Christian This World Sorrow Mere Kingdoms Materialistic Kingdom Come

Author:Ben Salmon

“This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false.”

Ifs World Wells Long Ideas Action This World Depends Sorrow Foundation Well Being Excellent Firm Mutual Long Ago Proven Departure Fables Firm Foundation

Book:Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed, the idea of self-denial and of all that makes for pain and sorrow is its test of human worth, its passport to the entry into heaven.”

Source: Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures

“They say that negative things like stress, anxiety, tension, sorrow, and depression "squeeze the tube" so ideas don't flow through it. But if you get rid of that negativity, which goes away naturally when you transcend every day, these ideas are more freely flowing, and you get happy in the doing. You get fresh and inspiring ideas, and a bigger picture starts to emerge of the world and life. It's very good for the artist, businessman, fisherman, and any kind of person really.”

Ifs World Kind Persons Ideas Artist Sorrow Anxiety Negative Flow Bigger Stress Very Good Tension Negativity Businessman Tubes Doing You Fisherman Bigger Picture World And Life

Author:David Lynch

“All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.”

“So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains -- and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys -- and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning. And so you dare to be happy. You do that thing. You dare.”

Way Feels Littles Doe Ideas Together Reading Sound Behinds Fire Imagine Wind Keys Sorrow Pages Window Green Dare Woods Melody Ecstasy Curtains Pouring Snapping Pages Turning

Book:The King in the Tree

Source: The King in the Tree

“You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.”

Children Long Ideas Soul Whole Imagine Streets Stupid Fool Sorrow Harmony Dirty Proportion Toys Great Idea Fleas Flea Markets

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of it's complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.”

Giving Ideas Today Beautiful Names Known Strange Regret Sorrow Sad Graves Boredom Ashamed Melancholy Remorse Egoism

Book:BONOUR TRISTESSE

Source: BONOUR TRISTESSE

“The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.”

World Ideas Loss Grief Huge Goes On Sorrow Tragedy No Idea Seconds Bereavement Weird Things Devastating Loss

Author:James Patterson

“And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wild—they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.”

Trying Ideas Sorrow Summer News Dear Thoughtful Shore Lilies Spurs Slippery

Author:Mary Oliver

“Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in him to have taken pleasure in the idea that his great love might come in to comfort and console her; much the same kind of strange passionate pleasure which comes stinging through a mother's heart, when her drooping infant nestles close to her, and is dependent upon her for everything.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)

“Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!”

Art Ideas Light Sorrow Art Is Heavy Fraud Breeze Fugitive

Author:Barbara Kruger

“I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.”

Ideas Would Be Beautiful Heaven Poor Powerful Secret Wonder Hell Sorrow Members Filled Drinking Ugly Wealthy Stomach Disorder Vacuums Booze Best Family

Book:Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961