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“Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.”

Persons Feelings Loss Sorrow Solitude Beloved Retirement Abandonment Parting Revive Uselessness Beloved Person

Book:La vieillesse

Source: La vieillesse

“Sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.”

Form Behinds Sorrow Solitude Faded

Book:The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, a Life of the Author, and an Essay on His Poetry, by the Rev. John Mitford

Source: The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, a Life of the Author, and an Essay on His Poetry, by the Rev. John Mitford

“Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.”

Light Age Faith Left Grows Goes On Sorrow Pure Solitude Shining Old Age Revelations

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.”

World Moments Vision Tears Sorrow Calling Solitude Busy Prey Other Worlds

Author:Lord Byron

“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.”

Forget Duty Sorrow Solitude Refuse Wounds Heal Grieving Cherish Funeral Affliction Divorced Bereavement

Book:The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume

Source: The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume

“When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a dream? When, in my rags—without desires—shall I retire contented into the mountains? When, seeing that my body is merely sickness and crime, age and death, shall I—free, fearless, and blissful—retire to the forest? When? When, oh when?”

Dream Body Age Lasts Joy Desire Seeing Crime Sorrow Solitude Mountain Sacred Forests Certainty Fearless Sickness Companion Retiring Rags

Book:Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek

“Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.”

Heart Hands Spiritual Strong Sorrow Sad Solitude Fingers Ache

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.”

Ifs Life Sorrow Solitude Leaving Pennies Sorrow Love

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.”

People Spirit Sorrow Solitude Desert Wounded Caves Relaxation Healed Herds Deer Sorrowful

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces