"I saw grief drinking a cup of..." - Quote by Rumi
I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered, 'and you've ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you know it's a blessing?
More by Rumi
“Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.”
“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”
“Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving.”
More on Grief
“My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.”
“Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead.Thy match was mortal to him, and pure griefShore his old thread in twain.”
“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.”
More on Sorrow
“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.”
“Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.”
“And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wild—they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.”