"What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
--George Eliot
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Kahlil Gibran
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
-Langston Hughes
To love is to be vulnerable...C.S. Lewis
"All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief."
-Cicero
In the midday sun, a bright light will be barely noticed. Yet in the darkest night, even the smallest light can make an enormous difference.
-- Ralph Marston
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.
-- Alex Tan.
"The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves."
- Joseph Addison
"Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth,
and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning
of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?"
- Hal Borland
"Autumn is marching on: even the scarecrows are wearing dead leaves."
- Otsuyu Nakagawa
"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it,
the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show."
- Andrew Wyeth
The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Was it the ghost of autumn in that smell
Of underground, or God's blank heart grown kind,
That sent a happy dream to him in hell?"
- Siegfried Sasson, Break of Day, 1918