quotes on dealing with disappointment?
“One of the things I’ve learned is that one must live no matter what. No matter what, one must love. No matter what, one must die. In fact, what often keeps us going is exactly this ‘no matter what.’”
— Clarice Lispector, “An Apprenticeship or The Book of Delights”
“But don’t lose heart, dear ones—don’t lose heart. Don’t let it make you bitter. Try to understand. Try to understand. The world’s already bitter enough, we got to try to be better than the world.”
— James Baldwin, Another Country
“Life is so sad, he would think in those moments. It’s so sad, and yet we all do it. We all cling to it; we all search for something to give us solace.”
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
“We go on. Because it is the hard thing to do. And we owe ourselves the difficulty.”
— Nikki Giovanni, from “Today: For Mari Evans”
— Sharif S. Elmusa, from “Flawed Landscape”
“When the sky is grey and I see a rose sprouting through the cracks in a wall I don’t say: the sky is grey but keep my eye on the rose…”
— Mahmoud Darwish, from “The Dice Player”
“And the heart does not die when one thinks it should, / we smile, there is tea and bread on the table.”
— Czeslaw Milosz, from “Elegy for N. N.”
“I don’t want to learn anything from the failure of this love. (What I could learn is to become cynical or guarded or even more afraid of loving than I was before.) I don’t want to learn anything. I don’t want to draw any conclusions. Let me go one being naked. Let it hurt. Let me survive.”
— Susan Sontag, from her journals
“You will see great sorrow, and in that sorrow you will be happy. This is my last message to you: in sorrow seek happiness. Work, work unceasingly.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from The Brothers Karamazov
— Ada Limón, from “The Leash”
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