A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
Some very beautiful things get lost and forgotten. Just as I got lost.
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
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