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In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Crack-Up (1936)
There’s enough sorrow in the world, isn’t there, without trying to invent it.
E. M. Forster1879–1970A Room with a View (1908), Part One, Chapter IIIn context
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
Robert Frost1874–1963Fire and Ice (1920)In context
I have been one acquainted with the night.
Robert Frost1874–1963Acquainted with the Night (1928)In context
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Edward Gibbon1737–1794The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776–1788), Chap. 49.
- Charity
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923), On Joy and SorrowIn context
- Happiness
For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923), On Reason and PassionIn context
- Thinking
There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
André Gide1869–1951“An Unprejudiced Mind,” p. 317
- Thinking
Two souls, alas! reside within my breast,
And each withdraws from, and repels, its brother.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene II, spoken by FaustIn context
- Character
My peace is gone,
My heart is sore:
I never shall find it,
Ah, nevermore!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene XVIn context
- Love
Feeling is all in all:
The Name is sound and smoke,
Obscuring Heaven’s clear glow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene XVI, spoken by FaustIn context
- God
The sadness will last forever.
Vincent van Gogh1853–1890Attributed to Vincent, as quoted by Theo van gogh in his letter from Paris, to Elisabeth van Gogh, 5 August 1890
Some die because they feel everything, others because they feel nothing. Some are fools because they suffer no regrets, and others because they do.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), Maxim 208 (p. 118)
When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity⁠— that was a quality God’s image carried with it.
Graham Greene1904–1991The Power and the Glory (1940)
- God
The lonelier you are, the more you pull away, until humans seem an alien race, with customs and a language you can’t begin to understand. (p145)
Alice Hoffmanborn 1952Practical Magic (1995)