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#1

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

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#2

“The weight of this sad time we must obey,
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
The oldest hath borne most: we that are young
Shall never see so much, nor live so long.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

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#3

“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

tags: grief, mourning, sadness, sorrow, suffering

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#4

“Deep in earth my love is lying
And I must weep alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: bereavement, crying, sorrow

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#5

“Those who do not weep, do not see.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: crying, inspirational, sorrow

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#6

“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: joy, poetry, sorrow

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#7

“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

tags: children, fairies, fantasy, loss-of-innocence, poetry, sorrow

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#8

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms

tags: life-experience, poetry, sorrow

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#9

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: bereavement, grief, loss, mourning, sadness, sorrow, words

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#10

“Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: farewells, gandalf, goodbye, leaving, sorrow

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#11

“The Uses Of Sorrow

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver, Thirst

tags: darkness, poetry, sorrow

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#12

“I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

tags: belief, life, perseverance, pessimism, sorrow, weeping

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#13

“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: acceptance, actions, beliefs, common-sense, confusion, disbelief, evidence, faith, family, hoping, life-purpose, love, mixed-signals, obvious, outrage, proof, reality, religion, sorrow, timing, truth, unrequited-love

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#14

“I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I’m so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that’s all …a day … an hour ...
...One day, she promised herself as she lay abed, one day she would allow herself to be less than strong.
But not today. It could not be today.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

tags: crying, sorrow

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#15

“How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

tags: carelessness, despair, ignorance, insight, loneliness, love, sorrow, wisdom

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#16

“Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

tags: dreams, sorrow

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#17

“Was it hard?" I ask.
Letting go?"

Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”
― Lisa Schroeder

tags: heartbreak, life, love

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#18

“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”
― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

tags: at-first-sight, emotions, healing, heartbreak, love, nicholas, nicholas-sparks, sparks

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#19

“you
not wanting me
was
the beginning of me
wanting myself
thank you”
― Nayyirah Waheed

tags: heartbreak, inspirational, poetry

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#20

“I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”
― John Milton

tags: hinesty, integrity, patience, suffering, wisdom

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#21

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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#22

“I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. I feel, therefore I am is a truth much more universally valid, and it applies to everything that's alive. My self does not differ substantially from yours in terms of its thought. Many people, few ideas: we all think more or less the same, and we exchange, borrow, steal thoughts from one another. However, when someone steps on my foot, only I feel the pain. The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of egocentrism.”
― Milan Kundera, Immortality

tags: egocentrism, feeling, suffering, thinking, thought, truth

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#23

“What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits... No, no. I'll have to be a slave in the paper-mines for all time.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman

tags: career, english-literature, university, work

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#24

“مردم می توانند هرقدر دوست دارند از مذهبشان حرف بزنند اما اگر مذهبشان یادشان ندهد که با انسان و حیوان خوب و مهربان باشند همه ی این حرف ها ریاکاری است.”
― Anna Sewell, Balck Beauty

tags: classic-literature, english-literature, nineteenth-century, novel, ادبیات-انگلیس, ادبیات-کلاسیک, رمان, قرن-نوزدهم

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#25

“ما می نوشتیم تا واقعیتی را که به نظر می آمد در حال فرو رفتن و غرق شدنی ابدی در یک فراموشی تحمیلی است در حافظه هامان زنده نگه داریم. این جمله ی میلان کوندرا در کتاب خنده و فراموشی به یادم می آید:(( ملت ها این گونه نابود نی شوند که نخست حافظه شان را از آن ها می دزدند، کتاب هایشان را تباه می کنند، دانش شان را تباه می کنند،و تاریخشان را نیز. و بعد کسی دیگر می آید و کتاب های دیگری می نویسد، و دانش و اموزش دیگری به آن ها می دهد، و تاریخ دیگری را جعل می کند)) .”
― Ivan Klíma, روح پراگ

tags: from-books, literature, nations, politics, writters, ادبیات, از-کتاب-ها, سیاست, ملت-ها, نویسندگان

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#26

“چــون بسی ابلیس آدم روی هست
پس به هر دستی نباید داد دست”
― جلال الدین محمد بلخی رومی, مثنوی معنوی

tags: ادبیات

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#27

“در انتهای اندوه دریچه روشن گشاده است ”
― احمد شاملو

tags: شعر

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#28

“بی قصد گفتم: (( بعضی اوقات از خودم می پرسم، واقعا آزاد بودن چه معنی ای دارد.))

- من فکر می کنم که آزادی نمی تواند جز کمی بی گدار زدن به آب باشد . آزادی تعادلی متزلزل است، کمی خارج از حد و‌ مرز بودن.”
― Gianrico Carofiglio, Three O'Clock in the Morning

tags: fathers-and-sons, latinx-literature, novel, short-story, ادبیات-لاتتین, داستان-کوتاه, رمان, پدران-و-پسران

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#29

“به راستی چقدر کارها آسان می شد اگر انسان ها بسیاری از سهل انگاری های خود را به نام دوراندیشی و خیرخواهی توجیه نمی کردند. چه بسا از کودکی ما را از کارهایی که شوق انجامشان را داشتیم منع کردند، تنها به این بهانه که از پس آن کارها بر نمی آییم.”
― André Gide, La Symphonie pastorale

tags: favorite, french-literature, novel, short-story, ادبیات-فرانسه, داستان-کوتاه, رمان, علاقه

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#30

“به علاوه، خواننده ی عزیز، آیا متوجه شده اید آدمی که در جمع زیر دستانش سخت پریشان حواس است، در محفل افراد بالاتر از خود هرگز چنین نیست؟”
― Ivan Turgenev, Rudin

tags: classic-literature, novel, russian-literature, short-story, ادبیات-روس, ادبیات-کلاسیک, داستان-کوتاه, رمان

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