"Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city."

Sorrow, Spirit, Departure, Pain, Suffering

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"Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city."

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"He fell on his knees on that barren ground, Staring at the sky. And the sky opened up for him by raining. With the rain, every drop of his tear was washed down filling the cracks beneath. nobody got to see his pain and agony. And yet again he remained a mystery that was never solved."

Akshay Vasu, Indian Poet

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"When sorrows come they come not as single spies But in battalions!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Sugar cane reach up to GodAnd every baby cryingShame the blanket of my nightAnd all my days are dying."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"The saddest sorrow is to desire death while you have life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"More in sorrow than in anger."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Sorrow, Process, Emotion, Pain

"The worst kind of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see- the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it."

Katie McGarry, American Author

Sorrow, Grief, Silence, Suffering, Loss

"My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed."

Peter S. Beagle, American Author

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Explore more quotes by Kahlil Gibran

"I have a yearning for my beautiful country, and I love its people because of their misery. But if my people rose, simulated by plunder and motivated by what they call "patriotic spirit" to murder, and invaded my neighbour's country, then upon the committing of any human atrocity I would hate my people and my country."

Ethics

"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem."

Spiritual

"But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also."

Philosophy

"The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To What He Does Not Say."

Insight

"If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces, then in truth you do not see nor do you hear."

Philosophy

"Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return..... Forget not that I shall come back to you....A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and anohter woman shall bear me."

Spiritual

"I came here to be for all and with all,and what I do today in my solitudewill be echoed tomorrow by the multitude.What I say now with one heartwill be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts..."

Unity

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potters oven?And is not the lute that soothes your spirits the very wood that was hollowed with knives?"

Emotion

"Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do."

Morality

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls, the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Strength