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![Francine Prose](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1249678588i/12180.jpg)
“I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night.”
― Goldengrove
― Goldengrove
![Edgar Allan Poe](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1454522972i/4624490._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.”
― Berenice
― Berenice
![نزار قباني](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1260699865i/850723._UX200_CR0,51,200,200_.jpg)
“أدمنت احزاني
فصرت اخاف ان لا احزنا
I got addicted to my sorrows,
Until I have gotten scared of not being sorrowed.
وطعنت آلافا من المرات
حتى صار يوجعني بان لا اطعنا
And I was stabbed thousands of times,
Until it felt painful not to be stabbed.
ولعنت في كل اللغات
حتى صار يقلقني بان لا العنا
And I was cursed in all the languages,
Until I started being nervous of not being cursed.
ولقد تشابهت كل البلاد
فلا ارى نفسي هناك، ولا ارى نفسي هنا
And all the countries seemed the same,
That I don't see myself there, And I don't see myself here.”
―
فصرت اخاف ان لا احزنا
I got addicted to my sorrows,
Until I have gotten scared of not being sorrowed.
وطعنت آلافا من المرات
حتى صار يوجعني بان لا اطعنا
And I was stabbed thousands of times,
Until it felt painful not to be stabbed.
ولعنت في كل اللغات
حتى صار يقلقني بان لا العنا
And I was cursed in all the languages,
Until I started being nervous of not being cursed.
ولقد تشابهت كل البلاد
فلا ارى نفسي هناك، ولا ارى نفسي هنا
And all the countries seemed the same,
That I don't see myself there, And I don't see myself here.”
―
![John Banville](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1407383277i/91._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.”
― The Sea
― The Sea
![Elizabeth Gilbert](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1440718929i/11679._UX200_CR0,53,200,200_.jpg)
“We were talking the other evening about the phrases one uses when trying to comfort someone who is in distress. I told him that in English we sometimes say, 'I've been there.' This was unclear to him at first-I've been where? But I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific loacation, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.
'So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked.
'Sometimes people live there for years,' I said.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
'So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked.
'Sometimes people live there for years,' I said.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
![Shannon L. Alder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1647739446i/1391130._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.”
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![Robin McKinley](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1643645900i/5339._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg)
“I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.”
― Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
― Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
![Vincent Panettiere](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1572720183i/1224740._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“She gave him a brief, mysterious smile. “You were watching me. I felt you before I saw you.”
So? This is a crime? he thought, determined not to retreat.
Did you study cultural physiology?
The eyes of Italian males are hardwired from birth to examine, observe, even caress, if you will, the female form. Any form. Some we glance at. Some we don’t really see, like our mothers and sisters. Some we ignore, and some we store as reference for the future. Got it?”
― Shared Sorrows
So? This is a crime? he thought, determined not to retreat.
Did you study cultural physiology?
The eyes of Italian males are hardwired from birth to examine, observe, even caress, if you will, the female form. Any form. Some we glance at. Some we don’t really see, like our mothers and sisters. Some we ignore, and some we store as reference for the future. Got it?”
― Shared Sorrows
![Mizu Sahara](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1605841548i/188314._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.”
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―
![Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629693671i/3137322._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
![Robin Hobb](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1397885202i/25307._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return.”
― Fool's Assassin
― Fool's Assassin
![George Sand](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1341112433i/1464._UX200_CR0,23,200,200_.jpg)
“God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.”
― La Petite Fadette
― La Petite Fadette
![Jack Gilbert](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1222366375i/82593._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“A Brief for the Defense
Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies
are not starving someplace, they are starving
somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils.
But we enjoy our lives because that's what God wants.
Otherwise the mornings before summer dawn would not
be made so fine. The Bengal tiger would not
be fashioned so miraculously well. The poor women
at the fountain are laughing together between
the suffering they have known and the awfulness
in their future, smiling and laughing while somebody
in the village is very sick. There is laughter
every day in the terrible streets of Calcutta,
and the women laugh in the cages of Bombay.
If we deny our happiness, resist our satisfaction,
we lessen the importance of their deprivation.
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have
the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless
furnace of this world. To make injustice the only
measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.
If the locomotive of the Lord runs us down,
we should give thanks that the end had magnitude.
We must admit there will be music despite everything.
We stand at the prow again of a small ship
anchored late at night in the tiny port
looking over to the sleeping island: the waterfront
is three shuttered cafés and one naked light burning.
To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat
comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth
all the years of sorrow that are to come.”
― Refusing Heaven: Poems
Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies
are not starving someplace, they are starving
somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils.
But we enjoy our lives because that's what God wants.
Otherwise the mornings before summer dawn would not
be made so fine. The Bengal tiger would not
be fashioned so miraculously well. The poor women
at the fountain are laughing together between
the suffering they have known and the awfulness
in their future, smiling and laughing while somebody
in the village is very sick. There is laughter
every day in the terrible streets of Calcutta,
and the women laugh in the cages of Bombay.
If we deny our happiness, resist our satisfaction,
we lessen the importance of their deprivation.
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have
the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless
furnace of this world. To make injustice the only
measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.
If the locomotive of the Lord runs us down,
we should give thanks that the end had magnitude.
We must admit there will be music despite everything.
We stand at the prow again of a small ship
anchored late at night in the tiny port
looking over to the sleeping island: the waterfront
is three shuttered cafés and one naked light burning.
To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat
comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth
all the years of sorrow that are to come.”
― Refusing Heaven: Poems
![Sarah Dessen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1372181953i/2987._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy details of another farewell. Now, my fingers hovered over my track pad, moving the cursor down to his comment section before I stopped myself. What was the point? Anything I said now would only be an afterthought.
Elizabeth who goes by her middle name”
― What Happened to Goodbye
Elizabeth who goes by her middle name”
― What Happened to Goodbye
![N.K. Jemisin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1438215930i/2917917._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“...and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears.”
― The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
― The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
![Robin Hobb](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1397885202i/25307._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin.”
― Fool's Assassin
― Fool's Assassin
![Mokokoma Mokhonoana](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1674037554i/7152008._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”
―
―
![William Joyce](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1407870851i/137553._UY200_CR11,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows.
But stories all...”
― Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King
But stories all...”
― Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King
![Karen Quan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1421263810i/12578804._UX200_CR0,77,200,200_.jpg)
“I'll use the blood from my spilling heart to write the words that were never able to slip out of my mouth, so you can see how much you've broken me into a perpetual state of melancholy.”
― Write like no one is reading
― Write like no one is reading
![Theodore Roosevelt](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198519048i/44567._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.”
―
―
![Alison Croggon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1316572631i/32401.jpg)
“Nothing is ever truly gone...
Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow."
-Hem at Zelika's grave”
― The Crow
Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow."
-Hem at Zelika's grave”
― The Crow
![Richard Baxter](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1234747714i/159003._UX200_CR0,45,200,200_.jpg)
“O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!”
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―
![Kahlil Gibran](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1353732571i/6466154._UX200_CR0,87,200,200_.jpg)
“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
― The Prophet
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
― The Prophet
![Sergei Yesenin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1260677659i/887400._UX200_CR0,45,200,200_.jpg)
“Not sorry, not calling, not crying
All will pass like smoke of white apple trees
Seized by the gold of autumn,
I will no longer be young.”
―
All will pass like smoke of white apple trees
Seized by the gold of autumn,
I will no longer be young.”
―
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