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“Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography.”

Stories Voice Fiction Childhood Sorrow Offers Adults Contemporary Realms Affliction Geography Seductive Contemporary Fiction

Author:Carol Anshaw

“Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.”

Humans Voice Humour Sorrow Highest Reconciliation Pathos

Book:Leacock on Life

Source: Leacock on Life

“The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life.”

Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons

“My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.”

Mind Heart Passion Voice Wall My Heart Circumstances Sorrow Illusion Wings Strings Minors Ache Chords Vibrate Baffled

Book:Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer

Source: Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer

“O brief, bright smile of summer! O days divine and dear The voices of winter's sorrow Already we can hear. And we know that the frosts will find us, And the smiling skies grow rude, While we look in the face of Beauty, And worship her every mood.”

Knows Looks Faces Grows Voice Sky Divine Sorrow Summer Worship Winter Dear Mood Rude Frost Bright Smiles

Author:Celia Thaxter

“For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes.”

Source: Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

“Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry "Amen" to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!”

Earth Joy Song Universe Heaven Voice Cry Poet Sorrow Lows Glory Singers Inward Woe Amen

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase.”

Way Christian Song Grows Voice Sweet Sorrow Quiet Angel Increase Notes Charity Graves Pursue Melody Harsh Sweetest Restful

Author:George Horace Lorimer

“A verse of Scripture in the morning, may become a blessing for all the day. It may sing in the heart as a sweet song, from morning until evening. It may become a liturgy of prayer in which the soul shall voice its deepest needs and hungers-amid toils, struggles, and cares. It may be a guide through perplexing tangles, Gods voice whispering cheer, a comforter breathing peace in sorrow.”

Needs Heart May Soul Care Song Voice Prayer Morning Struggle Sweet Sorrow Blessing Hunger Guides Scripture Evening Breathing Cheer Verses Toil Whispering Liturgy Comforter

Author:J.R. Miller

“In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.”

May Voice Sorrow Excitement Tone Mourning Consolation Mirth

Author:Willis Gaylord Clark

“Pardon me, O perfections of my God, for having preferred imperfect and evil inclinations to Thee! Pardon me, O justice of my God, for having outraged Thee by my sins. Pardon me, O holiness of my God, for having so long stained Thy sight's purity by my sins. Pardon me, O mercy of my God, for having despised so long Thy mercy's voice. In deep sorrow and contrition, I cast myself at Thy feet: Have mercy on me.”

Long Evil Voice Justice Sin Feet Sorrow Forgiveness Perfection Mercy Sight Casts Thee Purity Holiness Imperfect Inclination Pardon Despised Outraged Pardon Me Contrition Deep Sorrow

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“Girlchild . . . unfolds a compelling, layered narrative told by a protagonist with a voice so fresh, original, and funny you'll be in awe. This novel rocks . . . In Girlchild Tupelo Hassman has created a character you'll never forget. Rory Dawn Hendrix of the Calle has as precocious and endearing a voice as Holden Caulfield of Central Park. When you finish this novel, your sorrow at turning the last page will be eased by your excitement at what this sassy, talented author will do next.”

“I have a lot of special memories with my parents but my toughest one is, I had, as a teenager, a pretty insatiable appetite for beer. The first time I got drunk my father found me throwing up in the bathroom. I was 15, maybe 16, and the disappointment in his voice, I can hear it to this day, and the sorrow that that brought to him. He just felt like a failure as a father, and Id give anything to take that day back because that was so hard on him. In time, my life got better, and his did too, but that was really memorable, one of those memories Id like to forget.”

“Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.”

Ifs World Way Giving Reality Joy Voice Water Music Tears Sorrow Mountain Laughter Sitting Clouds Woods Hills Lakes Contemplating New Ways Tranquil Unrest Lamentation Mountain Lakes

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.”

Should Heart Doe Said Faces Dies Names Speak Voice Memories Greater Sorrow Cost Profession Heal Loved Ones Fades Sole Extinction Bereavement Abode Time Heals

Book:The Crossing

Source: The Crossing

“And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.”

World Together Evil Goal Voice Pleasure Events Sorrow Streams Good And Evil Yearning Siddhartha

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.”

Men Way I Can Pain Young Joy Voice Sweet Sorrow Singing Shame Shoes Holes Redemption Bliss Young Man Ecstasy Without Love Talk To Me Cigar Damnation Stumps Joy And Pain

Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“I can still see her face -- The sorrow in her eyes, her voice, as she condemns me. I didn't know it was possible to feel such shame. To feel so sick at heart. I'm lost inside, my soul -- all that I thought I was, and am, and ever will be -- shattered, cast to the winds. Compared to this, death is a mercy.”

Knows Feels Heart Stills I Can Soul Eye Faces Lost Voice Wind Sorrow Mercy Sick Shame Casts My Soul Her Eyes Shattered So Sick

Author:Chris Claremont

“The woods are never solitary — they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. We can never pierce its infinite mystery — we may only wander, awed and spellbound, on the outer fringe of it. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice.”

“The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.”

Together Faces Joy Voice Bears Sorrow Bed Moon Singing Bird Rivers Melancholy Your Face Moonlight Woven Whispering Reeds

Book:The String Quartet

Source: The String Quartet

“But a voice inside her whispered, There are no heroes, and she remembered what Lord Petyr had said to her, here in this very hall. 'Life is not a song, sweetling,' he'd told her, 'You may learn that one day to your sorrow.' In life, the monsters win, she told herself.”

May Said Life Is Song Winning Voice Lord Hero Sorrow One Day Monsters Remembered Halls

Book:George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)