Affliction Quote by Washington Irving Download Open image “The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.” — Washington Irving ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affliction Cherish Divorced Grief Mourning Refuse Sorrow
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal -… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. — Stefan Kanfer Copy Share Image
That sorrow is tragic and kills you exact, when love still alive and hope is dead. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
The real sorrow of the death of a man is felt only by his wife because only she knows what she has lost and… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“It’s very difficult to give up on things we can’t control. And that’s what a divorce represents. It represents the ultimate loss of control,… — Daniel Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm not really… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
