A quotation from John Adams

I am weary of reading Newspapers. The Times are so full of Events, the whole Drama of the World is such a Tragedy that I am weary of the Spectacle.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1793-02-27) to Abigail Adams

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A quotation from Omar Khayyam

I would not change the song the flute-girl sings
For all the diadems of weary kings,
   His joys the Sultan shares with all the world,
His cares he keeps — a chain of glittering rings.

Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات] [tr. Le Gallienne (1897), # 201

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Weariness is a shy, neurasthenic young girl whose parents form a rather dysfunctional couple: Hope, an absent father who finds his greatest happiness in the future, and Disappointment, a depressive mother who haunts the present, dragging behind her the black ball and chain of a decaying past...
What a lovely family!"

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Under the hat of anger, there is sometimes a desire to tear up our memories, to bury all the divine signs in the sand, and to take a vacation from your silence...
I want neither cries nor writings in invisible ink, nor those birds with dull and mossy wings from waiting for the rain of your words...

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#BlueChristmas: A Service of Hope is tonight. This is a really special time to take our #uncertainty, #weariness, #grief and more and place it before God during preparations for #Christmas. I hope we can share it together either in-person or online tonight. https://littlehills.church/blueChristmas/
Blue Christmas

As we approach the Christmas season, we often feel weighed down by losses, hurts and disappointments that seem to conflict with all the celebrations around us. Blue Christmas is meant to help us bring these things before our God, who understands. Christmas, after all, is about Him coming into the world to restore the things that are broken — including us.

‘Altschmerz’: A sense of weariness, with the same old problems…

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ALTSCHMERZ - From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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ALTSCHMERZ - From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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ALTSCHMERZ - From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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A quotation from Bible, vol. 2, New Testament:

«
Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.
»

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https://wist.info/bible-nt/71970/

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Matthew 11:28-30 [JB (1966)] - Bible, vol. 2, New Testament | WIST Quotations

Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light. Alternate translations:…

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A quotation from Byron, George Gordon, Lord:

«
But now at thirty years my hair is gray ––
(I wonder what it will be like at forty?
I thought of a peruke the other day)
My heart is not much greener; and, in short, I
Have squander’d my whole summer while ’twas May,
And feel no more the spirit to retort; I
Have spent my life, both interest and principal,
And deem not, wh…
»

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https://wist.info/byron/68435/

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Don Juan, Canto 1, st. 213 (1818) - Byron, George Gordon, Lord | WIST Quotations

But now at thirty years my hair is gray –– (I wonder what it will be like at forty? I thought of a peruke the other day) My heart is not much greener; and, in short, I Have squander'd my whole summer while 'twas May, And feel no more the…

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