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“It was a terrible thing, to love and not know whether you were loved in return, it led to the worst sensations--jealousy, rage, self-loathing--to all these lesser states.”
“Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things”
“No one can share in your sorrow.”
“Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.”
“Sorrow is dangerous.”
“She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow. Show her a rose and she'll see only the wasp in the center of the bloom.”
“Your sorrow will become smaller, like a star in the daylight that you can't even see. It's there, shining, but there is also a vast expanse of blue sky.”
“Many a month of gloomy unconsciousness rolled over me, without date or notice. One thousand waves may welter over a sunk wreck, and be felt as one.”
“red rain is coming downred rain is pouring downred rain is coming down all over meI'm bathing in itred rain coming downred rain is coming downred rain is coming down all over meI'm begging youred r...”
“Most people think it's normal to have a nameless sorrow at the bottom of your soul.”
“Waqt masiha haeh, har gham ko samaa lega, Lekin waqt haeh, waqt lega. (Time is a messiah, every sorrow it shall contain. But time it is and time it shall take.)”
“I, too, am among those unable to step outside the realm of worldly distinctions. I hide my excesses of joy and sorrow beneath a robe of false contentment and drown in a pool of tears unseen by othe...”
“But after much thought, I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing more difficult in this world than to surrender completely. This is one of man's greatest sorrows.”
“but above all, i wish for you happiness, even though I'm aware you require my absence to find it.”
“The jewels of sorrow last forever”
“Her heart broke. Because of sorrow. Because of guilt. Because of repressed dreams, visions and fantasies. Because almost nothing in her life had gone as she'd hoped.”
“How can you make light of it? I says. What should I do? She says. Cry fer the rest of my life? Molly of the Many Sorrows?...You got battle scars. This is mine, she says. You know what it tells me? ...”
“What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.”
“The only thing to do with one's old sorrows is to tuck them up neatly in their shroud and turn one's face away from their grave towards what is coming next.”
“Every sorrow and every pain is a good reminding to us to be serious because we are living in a dangerous universe!”
