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“Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.”

Littles Rooms Sorrow Quiet Corners Snow Dirty

Author:Betty MacDonald

“Children of yesterday, / Heirs of to-morrow, / What are you weaving? / Labor and sorrow? / Look to your looms again. / Faster and faster / Fly the great shuttles / Prepared by the Master, / Life's in the loom, / Room for it - / Room!”

Life Looks Children Hope Rooms Masters Sorrow Labor Prepared Yesterday Faster Heirs Morrow Weaving

Author:Mary Lasswell

“We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness with all beings. Don't ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time.”

“No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.”

Source: Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon

“With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.”

People Feels Heart Said Realizing Rooms My Heart Sorrow Crowds Midst Betray Flash Cholera Piers

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky.”

Eye Faces Dark Rooms Sky Effects Figures Pride Sorrow Red Passionate Storm Instant Autumn Resolution Pale Glimpse Gathering Gloom Dark Eyes

Book:A Long Fatal Love Chase

Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase

“There must still be room for the falling note, of course. Even in an undying world there are times when beauty passes from sight, or love passes from the heart, and we feel the sorrow of partition.”

World Feels Heart Stills Fall Courses Rooms Sorrow Sight Notes Partition

Author:Clive Barker

“In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well... I wasn't entirely alone... It's not possible to sleep alone.”

Wells Whole Eye Song House Speak Sleep Rooms Sorrow Blonde

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”

Heart Spiritual Joy House Grows Space Rooms Sorrow Roots Green Shakes Yellow Rotten Pull Ups Pain And Sorrow Sufi Mystic Green Leaves Yellow Leaves

Author:Rumi

“When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.”

Author:Emile Zola

“I was observing her closely as I talked, and after a while I began to get the impression that she was not, in fact, quite so merry and smiling a girl as I had been led to believe at first. She seemed to be coiled in herself, as though with a secret she was jealously guarding. The deep-blue eyes moved too quickly about the room, never settling or resting on one thing for more than a moment; and over all her face, though so faint that they might not even have been there, those small downward lines of sorrow.”

Source: Tales of the unexpected

“Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.”

People Heart Rooms Sorrow Filled Misery

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Trials make more room for consolation. There is nothing that makes a man have a big heart like a great trial. I always find that little, miserable people, whose hearts are about the size of a grain of mustard seed, never have had much to try them. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows — who never weep for the sorrows of others — very seldom have had any woes of their own. Great hearts can only be made by great troubles.”

People Men Heart Made Helping Bigs Found Rooms Trouble Sorrow Fellows Helping Others Trials Consolation Big Heart No Sympathy Great Hearts

Author:Charles Spurgeon