We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
-David Weatherford
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
-Joseph Stalin
However long the night, the dawn will break. -African Proverb
The silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God's secret in the obscurity of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body's elements do not tell the mysteries of the grave, by the agonized sighs of my heart announce to the living the drama which love, beauty, and death have performed. -Kahlil Gibran
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.-Carl Jung
I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it.
Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.
-Frederick Douglass
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.-Kahlil Gibran
There will always be death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year.
-Anonymous
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.-Louis E. Boone
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.-Washington Irving
Depression, when it’s clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it’s known to respond to medication and to counseling.
However truly you believe there’s a sickness to existence that can never be cured, if you’re depressed you will sooner or later surrender and say: I just don’t want to feel bad anymore.
The shift from depressive realism to tragic realism, from being immobilized by darkness to being sustained by it, thus strangely seems to require believing in the possibility of a cure… -Jonathan Franzen
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. -Winston Churchill
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.-Anais Nin
Life is pleasant.Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome -Jimi Hendrix
Sadness flies away on the wings of time. -Jean de La Fontaine
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
-Christina Georgina Rossetti
Love can sometimes be magic.
But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.-Javan
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'
-John Greenleaf Whittier
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. -Psalms
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.-William Blake
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been!"
-John Greenleaf Whittier
The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy. -Jim Rohn
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their
closet. -Charles Caleb Colton
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. - Pearl S. Buck
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. -Carl Jung
No my friend, darkness is not everywhere, for here and there I find faces illuminated from within; paper lanterns among the dark trees. -Carole Borges
Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted.
"No, I don't," I said. -Franz Kafka
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. -Helen Keller
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary.
Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. -Albert Einstein
The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their
behavior. Ordinarily, this means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity.Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.-Bruce Henderson
There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. -Dante
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.-Eric Hoffer
Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat -Henry Fosdick
How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness. -Jim Rohn
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. -Oscar Wilde
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.-Leonardo da Vinci
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. -Eric Hoffer
We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.-R.W. Dale
then laugh, leaning back in my arms, for life is not a paragraph, and death I think is no parenthesis.-e.e. cummings
Oh, sweet sorrow, the time you borrow, will you be here when I wake up tomorrow? -Katherine Wolf
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.-Helen Keller
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.-Dag Hammarskjold
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.-Olive Schreiner
You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get.
No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.-Sidney Madwed
Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. -Gloria Steinem
It's such a straightforward sort of colour.
I never squint at a black tee shirt, wondering if it goes with my black jeans.
I never have to get up in the morning, thinking "I wonder what colour I'll wear today."
And black goes with anything.
As long as the anything is black.
- Neil Gaiman
The absence of love is the most abject pain.-Herr Lipp
There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.-Sylvia Plath
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. -Sylvia Plath
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. -Sylvia Plath
He is the truly courageous man who never depends. -Confucius
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