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“In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.”

Long Stills Ends Pain Speak Hell Fire Habit Terrible Sorrow Overcoming Weight Variety This Life Flames Intensity Torment Sinking

Book:The Best of James Joyce

Source: The Best of James Joyce

“Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.”

Heart Evil Music Enemy Sorrow Music Is Weight Bitter Satan Glorious Remove Fascination Gift From God Evil Thoughts

Author:Martin Luther

“Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed by the will of the writer into grace or redemption, a prophetic wail, a screed for justice, an elegy of sadness or sorrow. ... There is always a tension between experience and the thing that finally carries it forward, bears its weight, holds it in. Without that tension, one might as well write a shopping list.”

“Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.”

Littles Grief Sorrow Weight Heavy Rings Bells Doleful

Author:William Shakespeare

“Unwearied, and with springing steps elate, I had conveyed my wealth along the road. The empty sack proved now a heavier load: I was borne down beneath its worthless weight. I stumbled on, and knocked at Death's dark gate. There was no answer. Stung by sorrow's goad I forced my way into that grim abode, And laughed, and flung Life's empty sack to Fate.”

Way Wealth Dark Answers Steps Fate Sadness Sorrow Sad Empty Weight My Way Gates Laughed Load Worthless Grim Abode

Book:Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, then we shall look back to pains and sufferings and then we will see life and sorrow to be less than one step or stride from a prison to glory. Our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome-home to heaven.”

“It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. You cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. Time. And mystery.”

Feels Years Earth Joy Sound Air Mystery Land Century Sorrow Battle Skins Weight Smell Darling Counting Weighing Brushing

Book:Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind

Source: Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind

“He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what he meant. We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight, and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. "I know," he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did.”

Knows Way Humans Said Different Courses Common Grief Color Sorrow Weight Dimensions

Book:The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”

Used Grief Sorrow Weight Burden Bereavement Anchors Grief And Healing Griefing Truth About Forever

Book:The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.”

People Ifs Heart Soul Dies Water Fire Rocks Tears Sorrow Mountain Weight Your Soul Breathing Crush Keep Going

Book:Blood Noir

Source: Blood Noir

“It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good to us as though we knew a thousand reasons. I pray God to hold you quiet and patient and uncomplaining, and help you bear the weight of this seemingly unintelligible sorrow. I hope you will remember that this is the only world in which a Christian can suffer, and suffer patiently and meekly. We cannot suffer by and by. God helps us to glorify Him now, when we can.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“I'm afraid a boat so small would sink with the weight of all my sorrow.”

Sorrow Weight Boat Grieving Life And Death

Author:Li Qingzhao