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“What cities, as great as this, have... promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others... Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds; there their senate-house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile; temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins.”

House Cities Situation Sorrow Theatre Ruins Wander Awful Immortality Temples Weed Senate Posterity Traveller Sorrowful Reptiles Citadels

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“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

“A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.”

May Whole Dream Light Able Lost Hours Wake Up Waking Shed Gloom Dreary Sorrowful Happy Hour

Author:Walter de La Mare

“He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.”

Force Personality Glad Sorrowful

Book:The Story of Gösta Berling

Source: The Story of Gösta Berling

“Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.”

Artist Destiny Sorrowful

Author:Franz Liszt

“A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.”

Ifs Philosophy Beautiful Spirit Mankind Buddhism Morality Mass Catholic Metaphysics Sorrowful

Book:The Martyrdom of Man

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to become glorious, instead stubbornly remaining plain, a headache, a sorrowful knot of language.”

Ifs Suffering Language Grief Dying Sorrow Glorious Priests Exhausted Knots Headache Sorrowful

Author:Virginia Heffernan

“Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.”

Men May Jesus Given Born Community Sorrow Comfort Members Highest One Time Woe Introduction Sorrowful

Author:Sean O'Casey

“The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.”

Sorrow Gay Dislike Sorrowful

Author:Horace

“I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.”

Sacrifice Affection Conception Sorrowful

Author:Franz Liszt

“But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?”

Ifs Want Should Pain Suffering Pleasure Ready Amount Connected Heavenly What If Hardship Pain And Pleasure Sorrowful Jubilation

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his eye. There was a faint bluish furrow down each side of his nose, and this led to the eye sockets, and surrounded them in a pensive shade. The eyes, circled by this sad and beautiful darkness, were so sorrowful, lonely, gentle and nobly tragic, that they killed all other emotions except love.”

Eye Beautiful Sides White Emotion Darkness Lonely Noses Gentle Glorious His Eyes Tragic Silver Shade Pearls Horns Unicorn Sorrowful Pensive

Author:T. H. White

“Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany”

Knows Wells Made Difficult Hours Decision Responsibility Know How Fate Bears Burden Well Being Germany Closest Collaborators Sorrowful

Author:Hjalmar Schacht

“Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you - and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.”

Ifs Giving Spirit Prayer Pleasure Sacrifice Talent Masters Bears Blessed Angry Slave Mood Unhappy Innocent Guilty Load Submission Deliverance Sufferers Sorrowful Submission To God

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“When you are sorrowful, look again.”

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Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach full of milk, but Amy felt a heaviness begin, a familiar turning of some inward tide. As they drove over the bridge the sun seemed to move from a cheerful daytime yellow to an early-evening gold; painful how the gold light hit the riverbanks, rich and sorrowful, drawing from Amy some longing, a craving for joy.”

Source: Amy and Isabelle: A Novel

“To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.”

Thinking Needs Feels Melancholy Infection Sorrowful Really Positive

Author:Mick Fleetwood

“Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.”

World God Christian Poor Weak Sinner Sorrowful

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really stupid with my anger, a sorrowful face appears in my mind and asks... "Problem or inconvenience?" I think of this as the Wollman Test of Reality. Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.”

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