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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.