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We look before and after,
And pine for what is not,
Our sincerest laughter
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We look before and after,
And pine for what is not,
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Yet be sad, good brothers,
For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.
Sorrow so royally read more
Yet be sad, good brothers,
For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.
Sorrow so royally in you appears
That I will deeply put the fashion on
And wear it in my heart.
Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance
sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance
sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, read more
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the read more
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.
We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.
Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how read more
Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, read more
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
