Do not slave holders wish to make the black man other kind? – Animals with affections, imitation, fear of death, pain, sorrow for the dead. – Respect.
We’re always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who’ve closed down. And there are times in one’s life when one has to close down just to regroup.
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
The word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
The sadness will last forever.
Sorrow is Knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest over the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.
No words suffice the secret soul to show, for Truth denies all eloquence to Woe.
Most all our worldly troubles are only drifting bubbles. Most all our cares and sorrows are gone with our tomorrows.
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
I greet you from the other side Of sorrow and despair With a love so vast and shattered It will reach you everywhere
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Anger and depression and sorrow are beautiful things in a story, but they are like poison to the filmmaker or artist.
