Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.
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I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial__ believe we are lost.
Visionless people are prone to harm and trouble, because they always follow any path and end anyhow.
Don't be sorry;Don't you cry.It's enoughThat you tried.I love you,And that won't change.It's not your faultThings worked out this way
She is intent on pleasing the men that frighten her.
I can love what is broken.
Nothing in her life makes sense.All she craves is for the pieces of the puzzle to fit together again.She is sure one day it will happen. She just doesn__ know when.She can__ fight injustice alone_ for that, she needs her friends.
You__e my prey tonight.
Sometimes all you need is someone who is willing to listen to you without advising or judging you.
I threw myself so far in your depth that it took me a month to come out and notice I was actually sitting in my room. Nowhere else. Not with you.
Oceanic farness treasures tomorrowMingled tears lost in the sea of sorrowOur immortal love will lead us a way When pale days remain cloudy and grey
We cannot see love yet its nurturing warmth is the essence of our being and sorrow can touch our very soul. For remorse is like a ripple on the ocean, once given it remains only in the heart of the receiver.Believe in Yourself by Grace Willows
Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be damaged? Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be weak in some places?
Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn__ normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn__ normally do.
In a corner you condense yourself and cry- in the same corner you caress and kiss. Life is this, something different each time.
Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.
In the world we live, we don__ create or destroy- we just convert entities from one form to another. Loss and Sorrow too. If these are growing in your life- remember you are feeding them.