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Wed 7 Jun 2023

Tower

Posted by PJ under aging, poetry, quote of the day, sorrow, youth
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Random quote of the day:

“When young, I did not know the taste of sorrow.
I went up the tower.
I went up the tower
to write a poem on pretended sorrow.

By now I’ve completely tasted sorrow, but already
I do not want to speak about it.
I do not want to speak about it,
I only say: what a beautiful, cold autumn.”

—Xin Qiji
(28 May 1140 – 3 Oct 1207)


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Tue 21 Jun 2022

Sadness

Posted by PJ under anxiety, lessons learned, quote of the day, sorrow, the deep within
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Random quote of the day:

“So you must not be frightened…if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud-shadows passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any agitation, any pain, any melancholy, since you really do not know what these states are working upon you?”

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (tr. M. D. Herter Norton)

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Wed 1 Jun 2022

Sorrows

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, sorrow
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Random quote of the day:

“All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched.”

—Seneca, “Consolation to Helvia” (his mother), A. D. 41

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Mon 29 Nov 2021

Sorrow

Posted by PJ under food, grief, quote of the day, sorrow
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Random quote of the day:

“Sorrow is food swallowed too quickly, caught in the throat, making it nearly impossible to breathe.”

—Jessmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

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Fri 6 Jan 2017

Olive branch

Posted by PJ under peace, quote of the day, sorrow, war
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Random quote of the day:

“If the olive trees knew the hands that planted them, their oil would become tears.”

—Mahmoud Darwish

 

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Tue 23 Aug 2016

Weeping

Posted by PJ under aging, death, quote of the day, sorrow
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Random quote of the day:

“Man weeps to think that he will die so soon. Woman, that she was born so long ago.”

—H. L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques, “The Old Subject,” #17

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Thu 14 Apr 2016

Apples

Posted by PJ under bearing witness, hearts, quote of the day, sorrow, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

—Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

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Tue 21 Jul 2015

Consolations

Posted by PJ under consolation, hope, imagination, quote of the day, sorrow
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Random quote of the day:

“Hope and imagination are the only consolations for the disappointments and sorrows of experience.”

—Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium

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Tue 11 Nov 2014

The world’s more full of weeping than you can understand

Posted by PJ under consolation, grief, quote of the day, sorrow
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Random quote of the day:

“Weeping is perhaps the most human and most universal of all relief measures.”

—Dr. Karl Menninger, The Vital Balance

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Fri 30 May 2014

Ghosts of hunger

Posted by PJ under hunger, quote of the day, sorrow
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Random quote of the day:

“Hunger was more powerful than sorrow.”

—Dante Alighieri, The Inferno, Canto 33, Line 7
(tr. Victoria Kirkham)

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