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Áh! ás the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you wíll weep and know why.
Gerard Manley Hopkins1844–1889Spring and Fall (1880)In context
- Age
We are trying always to be happy, but unhappiness is just as real, just as important an emotion. And if you are closing yourself off from it, you are closing yourself off from other people.
Lily Jamesborn 1989Hodge, Gavanndra (15 June 2019). “Lily James: ‘We are trying always to be happy, but unhappiness is just as real, just as important’”
- Happiness
I think I’m a little bit heartbroken all the time, even when I’m in a happy relationship. I don’t do casual very well, and my feelings, even the good ones, get so intense that they hurt.
Dakota Johnsonborn 1989Haskell, Rob (January 13, 2017). “Fifty Shades’s Dakota Johnson on Sex, Fame, and Building a Career on Her Own Terms”
- Love
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
Carl Jung1875–1961Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963), p. 356
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic — if it is pulled out I shall die.
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s, 1847
I’m rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I’m tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain.
Stephen Kingborn 1947The Green Mile (1996)
Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address (1861)
- Friendship
Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Hyperion (1839), Bk. III, Ch. 4.
Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
Audre Lorde1934–1992Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”, p. 124
Anger and depression and sorrow are beautiful things in a story, but they are like poison to the filmmaker or artist.
David Lynch1946–2025Catching the Big Fish (2006), “Suffocating Rubber Clown Suit”, p. 8
- Art
Time cools, time clarifies, no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Thomas Mann1875–1955The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 7
- Time
The writer’s joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
Thomas Mann1875–1955Death in Venice (1912), Ch. 4, as translated by David Luke
- Writing
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
not in silence, but restraint.
Marianne Moore1887–1972The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003), “Silence”
A melancholy can be sweet. It’s not a mean thing, but it’s something that happens in life — like autumn.
Bill Murrayborn 1950Interview with Thomas Chau
A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Human, All Too Human (1878), Aphorism 202, tr. R. J. Hollingdale
- Humor