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[zaynabmoharami]

"The same thing again and again. One moment a spark of hope gleams, the next a sea of despair rages; and always the pain, the pain, always the anguish, the same thing on and on. Left alone he feels horribly depressed, wants to call someone, but knows beforehand that with others present it will be even worse."

- The Death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Tolstoy

[zaynabmoharami]

"It occurred to him that all the flowers he had seen in the glass cases that first night must have gone the same way, long before this. It was only one splendid breath they had, in spite of their brave mockery at the winter outside the glass; and it was a losing game in the end, it seemed, this revolt against the homilies by which the world is run."

-Paul's Case - Willa Cather

[zaynabmoharami]

"Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain."

-Henry James