Isaac Mayer Wise Quotes

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

My purpose is far greater than my pain.

If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.

Don't despair, even over the fact that you don't despair

T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.

We were not made to eternally weep.

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.

To all who suffer- to all who feel discouraged, worried, or lonely- I say with love and deep concern for you, never give in. Never surrender. Never allow despair to overcome your spirit. Embrace and rely upon the Hope of Israel, for the love of the Son of God pierces all darkness, softens all sorrow, and gladdens every heart.

There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

'Southcliffe' is an anthem to ordinary people's ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.