Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet “Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires.” Thinking Writing Sorrow ♥ 3
Oscar Wilde Writer “There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.” Suffering Grief Sorrow ♥ 3
Ovid Poet “There is some joy in weeping. For our tears Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away.” Pain Joy ♥ 3
Ovid Poet “Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire.” Heart Fire ♥ 3
Oscar Wilde Writer “We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.” Heart Broken Sorrow ♥ 3
Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelist “The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.” Heart Mother ♥ 3
MG Margaret George Author “I was ever the realist, sometimes to my sorrow. But seldom to my regret.” Sometimes Regret ♥ 3
Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelist “There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and texture of eternity, so that spirits still embodied may well tremble at it.” Happiness Sorrow Substance ♥ 3
Isaac Watts Hymn Writer, Poet “No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found.” Blessing Sorrow Thorns ♥ 3
Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author “Recently, one friend asked me, "How can I force myself to smile when I am filled with sorrow? It isn't natural." I told her she must be able to smile to her sorrow, because we are more than our sorrow. A human being is like a television set with millions of channels. If we turn the Buddha on, we are the Buddha. If we turn sorrow on then we are sorrow. If we turn a smile on, we really are the smile. We can not let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to seize the situation in our hand, to recover our own sovereignty.” Hands Able Sorrow ♥ 3
JA James A. Baldwin Writer “Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected.” Important Clothes Sorrow ♥ 3
George Carlin Comedian, Actor “I say things that can be defined as prayers. But I don't pray to a power or ask an entity to intercede in the earthly scheme, because I don't believe that happens. But if I see a really unfortunate person in the street, I do pray, yes, though I suppose it's really more like a mantra to ease my own sorrow.” Believe Prayer Sorrow ♥ 3
