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Category Archives: SADNESS
The arrows of war lead to the pangs of sorrow. Edward Kofi Louis :
Time flies like an arrow.
“I didn’t want normal until I didn’t have it anymore”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception
Short pleasure, long lament.
Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood. (Turkish).
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati 1940 – 2012
Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.
Days of sorrow pass slowly; times of joy very quickly.
Let there be
more joy and laughter
in your living.
What ye do when ye’re drunk, ye may pay for when ye’re dry. For— Drunken mirth brings sober sorrow.
Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning and the noontide night.
[William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
THOSE WHO SWIM IN SIN MUST SINK IN SORROW . Frank Dadd.
sin, sorrow, and work are the things that men can’t shirk
Nobody can lead a life that is utterly virtuous, happy, or idle
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
George Sand: “The cigars numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.”
“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.” ― Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room
Men returning home on these nights have been led astray by the " faeu Bellengier " or Will o' the wisp, and when they believed themselves to be close to their own doors have found themselves, they knew not how, in quite another part of the island. GUERNSEY.
I heard the teardrop hit my pillow before I even knew I was crying. Terri Guillemets
What have you done, O you there
Who endlessly cry,
Say: what have you done, there
With youth gone by?
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/SelectedFrenchPoemsoftheNineteenthCentury.htm
The grasshopper flies about, but the kingfisher watches him. Samoan.
a kingfisher’s burnished plunge, the colourof felicity afire, came glancing like an arrowthrough landscapes of untended memory: ardorilluminating with its terrifying currencynow no mere glimpse, no porthole vistabut, down on down, the uninhabitable sorrow.
Amy Clampitt, “The Kingfisher”
“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I find it best to worry about the little things. Things that can be helped by being worried about. Such as the making of clam chowder, coffee. The bigger stuff, well, you have to handle that as it faces you.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Earth
FOTO – BELLINGEN SWIMMING POOL
The bridge between joy and sorrow is not long. Confidence begets confidence. German
“Potrzebny jak dziura w moscie”
“As necessary as a hole in the bridge”
Not to have felt pain is not to have been human.
Sorrow
This pain is not to make you sad, remember. That’s where people go on
missing…. This pain is just to make you more alert–because people
become alert only when the arrow goes deep into their heart and wounds
them. Otherwise they don’t become alert. When life is easy,
comfortable, convenient, who cares? Who bothers to become alert? When
a friend dies, there is a possibility. When your woman leaves you
alone–those dark nights, you are lonely. You have loved that woman so
much and you have staked all, and then suddenly one day she is gone.
Crying in your loneliness, those are the occasions when, if you use
them, you can become aware. The arrow is hurting: it can be used. The
pain is not to make you miserable, the pain is to make you more aware!
And when you are aware, misery disappears.Osho Take it Easy, Volume 2 Chapter 12
THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY 