Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.
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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be read more
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
What I want back is what I was
Before the bed, before the knife,
Before the brooch-pin and the salve
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What I want back is what I was
Before the bed, before the knife,
Before the brooch-pin and the salve
Fixed me in this parenthesis;
Horses fluent in the wind,
A place, a time gone out of mind.
Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it.
Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it.
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.
In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose read more
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is read more
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
