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“With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.”

Humans Matter Reason Seems Human Beings Taken Sorrow No Matter What Contrary Destroyed Suits Misfortunes Teamwork Mediocre Concluding

Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.”

Heart Matter Lasts Certain Grief Healing Taken Sorrow Truth Is Breaths No Matter What Wounds Fades Fade Away Never Fade

Book:God-Shaped Hole: A Novel

Source: God-Shaped Hole: A Novel

“the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about life is finding it gone.”

Lasts Life Is Gone Taken Air Terrible Sorrow Findings Wine Ashes Cigarette Dishes Fists Spiders Terrible Things Wry

Book:sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems

Source: sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems

“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)

“Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.”

Needs May Joy Christ Support Taken Groups Feet Sorrow Crosses Sufficient Divergent Tribulation Cleansing Rugged Peace And Joy Support Groups

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.”

Ifs Men Life Character Pleasure Taken Sadness Sorrow Sad Live Life Melancholy Impervious Sadness And Sorrow

Book:Suicide: A Study in Sociology

Source: Suicide: A Study in Sociology

“Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.”

“Every drop of sweat and every breath we take in life, if not taken for the sake of Allah, will lead to regret and sorrow on the Day of Judgment”

Ifs Life God Wisdom Taken Regret Sorrow Judgment Breaths Sake Islamic Sweat Commitment To God Wrath Of God

Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya