#quotes about sorrow

[incorrect-niche-quotes]

Temper: Valkyrie's missing. Can you find her?

China: What, you think I have her microchipped?

Temper: Well, do you?

China: ...yes.

[hylaversicolor]

peace of mind was not meant for me

[icharchivist]

the artbook saying they planned on having Cole in da4 to give a compassionate voice wanting to help Solas navigate through his pain and supporting him in front of Rook and the companions, only for the final product to literally just be "bashing Solas hours because he's such a loser for always being alone and he's to blame for literally everything (rightfully so or not)" just fills me with an intense sorrow i will never recover from.

[wehavewords]

“But I wasn't crying because I was sad. I guess I was crying because we had nowhere else to go, no choice but to go on living in this world. Crying because we had no other world to choose, and crying at everything before us, everything around us.”

Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

[altruistic-meme]

my nakahara chuuya poem book came in :)

[ljesaw]

𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦, 𝘪 𝘢𝘮 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦. ( ZUKO STUDY 1 / ?? )

[br1ng-out-th3-old-gu1llot1ne]

Who put the words in your head?

[l3xi39]

i cut my hair for you

i cut my hair so you wouldn't recognize me i cut my hair so you could forget it all and start again with someone else i cut my hair for you that's not the only thing i cut but i did it, i did it all for you so you could get what you wanted so you wouldn't get hurt anymore so you could live in peace without me bothering you every night took a lot of energy but i did it for your right

[eternaldisguise]

I was attached to a false hope...

[howifeltabouthim]

I kept the memory of our parting safe, hoarding it as a sign of unspoken feeling. All summer long, I talked to his ghost, telling the shadow what I had wanted to tell the man.

Siri Hustvedt, from The Blindfold

[heartoflesh]

When will I have traversed enough time to put enough distance between me and these emotions that tear through my muscle and bone. I have never known so much anguish. I have never known this much grief.

Excerpt from a book I'll never write, William

[ectoplasmer]

biting him biting him biting him bi

[wallflowerglitter]

Such a sad sad sad series. Sorrow is right.

[fishskeleton]

And I sit at my desk every morning writing—wondering. Do I want to marry a Christian or a good person? He says the Ideal is both; I’ve learned they are not synonyms.

He says we won't work out, but that I’m the best thing in his life. He is sad and confused. I told him to just let us be. We can worry about that later.

Analysis degrades the composure of our relationship

So I procrastinate decisions—enabling us to be.

The word Procrastinate has a poor connotation, seemingly an avoidance. But my design is less of an evasion, more a perpetuation: deliberate inadvertence.

Love is a rare commodity: as essential as water, and scarce as jade.

Why give it up for fear? Should love atone for logic?

No! I preach against it.

Yet subliminally...I concede to logic.

While my poet’s heart sees beauty, my mind’s eye

finds absurdity.

Deceit, deception: deceiver! Constitute yourself to this hypocrisy!

If I choose the absurd path, what blame must I carry?

If I believe myself a siren, prompting this evasion, how can I find serenity in his presence?

. . .

He asked me last night If I plan to marry him. I cannot procrastinate decisions any longer.

I said no.

He cried,

I cried,

And then I left.

—fishskeleton

[meretriciouslyloquacious]

#I think arguably all of Black Sails operates as an antithesis to this sentiment #I could actually go so far as to say that Black Sails is the antithesis of Treasure Island in general #That it's about tearing apart what has effectively created our popular memory of pirates

When the king brands us pirates, he doesn't mean to make us adversaries. He doesn't mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters. For that's the only way his god-fearing, tax-paying subjects can make sense of men who keep what is theirs and fear no one.

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this is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it

[ofstoriesnotatoms]

"Everyone who loses somebody wants revenge on someone, on God if they can’t find anyone else. And in Africa…In Matobo, the Ku believe that the only way to end grief is to save a life. If someone is murdered, a year of mourning ends with a ritual that we call "The Drowning Man Trial.” There’s an all-night party beside a river. At dawn, the killer is put in a boat. He’s taken out on the water and he’s dropped. He’s bound, so that he can’t swim. The family of the dead then has to make a choice. They can let him drown or they can swim out and save him. The Ku believe that if the family lets the killer drown, they’ll have justice but spend the rest of their lives in mourning. But if they save him, if they admit that life isn’t always just, that very act can take away their sorrow. Vengeance is a lazy form of grief."

— Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman), The Interpreter