“Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?” MenFirstsStatesJoyDutySorrowReflectionMercy Author:William Shakespeare
“The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.” StatesRealitySeemsJoyEffortSorrowIntellectualConsciousAppreciateInvisibleInevitableCompareAspirationIncapableAttainmentUnthinkable Book:Proust Source: Proust
“Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but on this particular occasion such was my state of feeling, that I began to fancy myself inspired; so I took pen in hand, and as usual I went ahead.” FeelsWritingSaidStatesFeelingsHandsParticularSorrowInspiredOccasionsFancyPensUsualOysters Book:A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ... Source: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...