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“Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.”

Ifs Knows Needs Sometimes Seems Impossible Tomorrow Sorrow Be You Impossibility Drowning Brighter Brighter Tomorrow

Author:Shaggy

“It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are terrible--because they never are realized, and at the same time they prevent us taking life as it is. That is the real source of all our sorrow and suffering.”

Real Suffering Justice Impossible Source Terrible Sorrow Conception

Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

“It is impossible to draw near to God without sorrows, without which human righteousness cannot remain unchanged... If you desire virtue, than give yourself to every affliction, for afflictions produce humility. If someone abides in virtue without afflictions, the door of pride is opened to him.”

Ifs Inspirational Giving Humans Christian Desire Religious Virtue Impossible Doors Produce Humility Pride Sorrow Draws Orthodox Righteousness Affliction

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new joys wait to fill the void.”

Mind Heart Seems Joy Waiting Loss Grief Impossible Sorrow Empty Void Heart And Mind Fill The Void

Book:Wishing You Happiness

Source: Wishing You Happiness

“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

“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”

Joy Impossible Sorrow Pure Sad Wisest

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.”

Ifs Wells Sometimes Would Be Suffering Wish Pleasure Wonder Cases Impossible Sorrow Despair Singing Bounds Monotonous Misers Muttering

Book:Nausea

Source: Nausea

“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

“. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.”

Men Impossible Sorrow Engaging Evanescence Allotments

Author:Erik Larson

“Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.”

Men Book Ends Stories Evil Black White Cities Darkness Impossible Sorrow Conflict Smoke Good And Evil Engaging Gore Daylight Evanescence Allotments

Author:Erik Larson