"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them"
-Lev "Leo" N. Tolstoy "Childhood, boyhood, youth." New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. (p.109)
Looks like they come hand in hand. Can't have one without the other. So feel love is to feel pain, to embrace love is to embrace pain. To enjoy a love ever after is to endure enduring pain. Morbid or romantic? Idealistic or realistic? Go figure.
"I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
-From Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam:27, 1850
Looks like they come hand in hand. Can't have one without the other. So feel love is to feel pain, to embrace love is to embrace pain. To enjoy a love ever after is to endure enduring pain. Morbid or romantic? Idealistic or realistic? Go figure.
Whoa.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about stuff like that in the car the other day.
How you can't know happiness if you've never felt sorrow. Or love without pain.
Scary man.
Its romantically morbid. =]
Ahahaha!! It's something like you can't tell if there is day when you have not experienced night. =)
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