“The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.”
“shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. the loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude”
“With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude. ”
“The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.”
“You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing. You lost life's secret.”
“Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.”
“Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.”