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A quotation from Samuel Johnson

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1750-08-28), The Rambler, No. 47

More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/26087…

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Strike

The phobia of a copperhead strike
is made real by the lunge of a
lawnmower into the brush to shred
the coiling orange and brown with
a screaming whump only to realize
that it was an eastern box turtle
I had set upon.

Once again what I am afraid of 
has led me to destroy what I love 
and I weep, wondering if I will ever 
become one whose perceived fears 
are not acted on.

I did not look to see if the 
slowmover was dead
but I knew. I could see the 
bloody pieces of her
shell scattered across
the lawn.

September 3, 1996

David Gilmour - Sorrow (Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ud_WPoCv0k

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Sad Clarity

Sorrow has this unique potential to inflict upon you a sense of sudden clarity. The usual triggers are alcohol or a sad song you like.

Not clarity about a particular thing or idea.

Just clarity, as in, a clear mind to think.

Your mind can take you anywhere from here.

I usually waste it away brooding.

A quotation from Euripides

JASON: I go — a father once; now childless.
MEDEA: You grieve too soon. Old age is coming.
 
[ἸΆΣΩΝ: στείχω, δισσῶν γ᾽ ἄμορος τέκνων.
ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: οὔπω θρηνεῖς: μένε καὶ γῆρας.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1395ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/85377/

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Emoscars (A)
Collapsed Damage

A quotation from The Talmud

When the Egyptians were drowning in the Red Sea, the angels in heaven began to break forth in songs of jubilation, but the Holy One, blessed be He, silenced them: “My creatures are perishing — and ye are ready to sing!”
 
בִּקְּשׁוּ מַלְאֲכֵי הַשָּׁרֵת לוֹמַר שִׁירָה, אָמַר הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא: מַעֲשֵׂה יָדַי טוֹבְעִין בַּיָּם, וְאַתֶּם אוֹמְרִים שִׁירָה

The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
Babylonian Talmud, Seder Moed, Megillah 10b.26 [Rosten (1972)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/talmud/4579/

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05.07.2026

From Naeema:

“I stand strong in this photo… but inside me lies an entire city of sorrow.

The war stole our homes, our peace, and days that will never return.

Yet we continue to carry weary hearts, smiling only so the world cannot see the depth of the brokenness we live with. 💔”

Please make a donation if you can:
🕊https://chuffed.org/project/183929

[Rapha]

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The Noumenon

When I experience these days

An emptiness in the heart

A sorrow or a loss

The missing of a friend

A loneliness of some sort

On an evening such as this

I tell myself

That is God letting me know

What it means to be human,

Me who have had my head

Far too much buried

In the depths of philosophy,

And yet in understanding humanity

I understand not the why and wherefore

Of why we humans are like this

Though there are some theories

That try and explain these things

And when I look into these experiences

With an idle curiosity of wonder

Without putting a name and label on them

And not seeking any resolution

I experience some unexplainable oneness

With everything

That there is, was and will be.

The Ache

The ache dullens not

Despite the passing hours

It remains fresh as ever

It is happy to exist

Not demanding an end

As if it too has a right to exist

Like any other thing in this world.

Ask not what the ache is about’

It is at once about everything

And at once about nothing

The kind of ache that exists

In a breast far from its origins.

This Moment – Lost

a thought of beauty strikes me
and I must express it so

but as I reach to grasp it
it flutters away,

a moth,
a feather,
a small white bird
startled by the motion
of my wanting.

my hand closes
around nothing,

void,

and I stand there
foolish with longing,
as if the air itself
had promised me a gift
then taken it back.

and I weep
for the passing moment.

it will never come again.

not in that light,
not with that breath,
not with the same small door
opened briefly
between the soul
and the world.

May 8, 1987 (age 19) (Expanded and updated June 2026)

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
-- Goethe

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A quotation from Shakespeare

MARCUS: Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped,
   Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Titus Andronicus, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 36ff (2.4.26-37) (c. 1590)

More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
-- Goethe

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Uneasy Wisdom

Unlike that Athenian gadfly
I know, and I know that I know
And I also know
Joys of various hues
Have as much a claim on me
As any good ol’ sorrows
And I know that my lot
As that of all here
Is to be sitting on this seesaw
Until Newton’s First Law kicks in
And the seesaw is no longer seen.

Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
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A quotation from Horace

Smiles are contagious; so are tears; to see
Another sobbing, brings a sob from me.
No, no, good Peleus; set the example, pray,
And weep yourself; then weep perhaps I may.
 
[Ut ridentibus adrident, ita flentibus adflent
humani voltus. Si vis me flere, dolendum est
primum ipsi tibi: tum tua me infortunia laedent,
Telephe vel Peleu.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 101ff (2.3.101-103) (19 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/83327/

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悲しみ (寂し人あらぬ部屋に)
.
訴（うた）ふべき悩みにあらず, 声立てて泣けば, 寂しも人あらぬ部屋に」（作：三ヶ島葭子）
.
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Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
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Something you don’t anticipate after the deaths of your sibling, mother and father - when traveling with your wife and son - is that you no longer have any emergency contacts to provide (requested by the airlines). You’re an orphan by attrition. #grief #loss #family #travel #sorrow

@Offroadrj Hienoja nuo suvantokohdat, joissa tunne tihkuu ihon läpi, kun ei vielä tai enää pääse ääneen.

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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.
 
[Ὄγδοον, ὅσῳ χαλεπώτερα ἐπιφέρουσιν αἱ ὀργαὶ καὶ λῦπαι αἱ ἐπὶ τοῖς τοιούτοις, ἤπερ αὐτά ἐστιν ἐφ’ οἷς ὀργιζόμεθα καὶ λυπούμεθα.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2295…

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Sorrow remembers us when day is done.
It sits in its old chair gently rocking
and singing tenderly in the evening…

—Iain Crichton Smith, “When Day is Done”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS (Carcanet, 2021)

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781800170940

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Joy
and sorrow

Friend
and foe

Love
and hate

are often so close to each other

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