"Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad."

Sorrow, Sadness, Tears, Darkness, Despair

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"Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad."

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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

Sorrow, Pain, Rain, Emotion, Struggle

"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

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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

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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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"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself."

Germaine Greer, Australian Activist

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Each new mornNew widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrowsStrike heaven on the face, that it resoundsAs if it felt with Scotland, and yelled outLike syllable of dolor."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Sorrow, Regret, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell."

Joni Mitchell, Canadian Musician

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Nature

"Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say."

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"Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art."

Nature

"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."

Beauty

"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."

Woman

"This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say."

Life

"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

Dream

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

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"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."

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"A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out."

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