Dream Quote by John Fletcher

“The state of mind above which my distraction floats like fog is suddenly perfectly clear, though the right word for it is less immediately…

— Mark Doty

“Most days I live awed by the world we have still, rather than mourning the worlds we have lost. The bandit mask of a…

— Paul Bogard

“Perhaps Sadness will use the shimmering wings of the morning kissed with dew and promise to sail away, and the dark Heart of the…

— Gloria Smith

“Great joys,why do they bring us sadness? Because there remains from these excesses only a feeling of irrevocable loss and desertion which reaches a…

— Emil Cioran

“There is silent and long-suffering sorrow to be met with among the peasantry. It withdraws into itself and is still. But there is a…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The word for teardrinkers is lachryphagous, and for the eaters of human flesh it is anthropophagous, and the rest of us feed on sorrow…

— Rebecca Solnit

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

— Jean Giraudoux

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

— Jean de La Fontaine

“Sadness is a grieve spirit. But Sorrow is refined the soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“And yet from thought of death, my friends, I shrink; I want to live - to suffer and to think, To taste of care…

— Anonymous

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

— Horace Greeley

The lessons we learn in sadness and from loss are those that abide. Sorrow clarifies the mind, steadies it, and forces it to weigh…

— Theodore T. Munger