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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to read more
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness
Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14].
Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14].
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, read more
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
