Apr 05, 2006 19:50
A midnight boat ride on an island-studded lake, with the moon suspended just above the treetops, is very close to a religious experience for the people of the north, as their souls fill with a tremendous wistfulness and a sense of simultaneous sadness and joy.
-swedish travel writer
its take away a part of me everytime i hear it yet leaves my emptiness with something much greater, a void you cannot find anywhere. a void of peace dancing with pain, a void of unthinkable joy, trapped with infinite tears
-a friend of ours
its weird the cooperation of sadness and joy at the exhibition of the beautiful
why sadness. sadness has its appropriate realm, it is not among the lurking evils. but why, when watching a sunset or listening to a melody without words, would we feel sadness