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“God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new, Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too much with common, easy ways, And now I know this, standing in this light, Who have been half alive these many years, Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain, Saying "I am a barren bough. Expect, Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough."”

“My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.”

Hell Too Much Sky Atheism Childhood Sorrow Angry Positive Atheism Ghost Satan Dread Deities Deep Sorrow Whooping Cough Colic

Author:George Eliot

“Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.”

Ifs Men Made Too Much Sorrow Beast Melancholy

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote

“Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.”

Art Pain Too Much Wise Sorrow Anger Presses Tongue Pity Tied Being Wise Disdain Tongue Tied

Book:Sonnets

Source: Sonnets

“If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.”

“But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.”

Sun Too Much Sorrow Moon Bitter Dawn Bitterness Heartbreaking

Book:Rimbaud

Source: Rimbaud

“It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart.”

People Mind Humans Heart Real Light Eye Stars Imagination Too Much Sorrow Battle Realms Feats Human Eyes

Book:The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel

Source: The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel

“Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.”

Heart Pain Life Is Too Much Sorrow Protect Blessed Shock Pain And Sorrow

Author:Yann Martel

“too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.”

Too Much Tears Sorrow Tears Of Sorrow

Book:The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel

Source: The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel

“These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only a bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit urge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows, breakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master. But we two, sitting here in the shelter, eating and drinking, shall entertain each other remembering and retelling our sad sorrows. For afterwards a man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.”

“And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.”

Kind Seems House Grief Too Much Sorrow Blessing Dear Obvious Trials Bitter Disguise Blessings In Disguise

Book:The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening, but in the more modern and baser sense of soothing sorrow, dulling pain, and drying tears - the comfort of the cushion, not the comfort of the Cross.”

People Mean Use Pain Prayer Too Much Modern Tears Taught Sorrow Comfort Crosses Originals Uplifting Heroic Soothing Strengthening Cushions

Author:Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy