Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observerjournalist.
The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.
When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.
Death cut the strings that gave me life, And handed me to Sorrow, The only kind of middle wife My folks could beg or borrow.
There is no sorrow except in captivity.
Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.
What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.
Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty.
If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an aesthetic sense that partially redeems the losses time brings and finds beauty in the faraway.
Music is the voice of all sorrow, all joy. It needs no translation.