A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
Interpretation
The pain of sorrow is intensified by memories of happier moments.
This quote suggests that experiencing sorrow is often made more difficult when we remember better times that once were, highlighting the contrast between past joy and present grief. It reflects the deep emotional complexity of human experience, where the remembrance of happiness can amplify feelings of loss and longing.
In practice
During a funeral, this quote could be shared to express the bittersweet nature of remembering the good times with the deceased.
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!
Earth is dry to the centre,_x000D_ But spring, a new comer,_x000D_ A spring rich and strange,_x000D_ Shall make the winds blow_x000D_ Round and round,_x000D_ Thro' and thro',_x000D_ Here and there,_x000D_ Till the air_x000D_ And the ground_x000D_ Shall be fill'd with life anew.
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food, but it supplies a food sufficiently abundant and sufficiently healthy for men who ask only to sustain themselves. The potato is criticized with reason for being windy, but what matters windiness for the vigorous organisms of peasants and laborers?
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.
The idol is the expression of religion.
We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood
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