Kural 1301 · புல்லா திராஅப் புலத்தை அவர்உறும்
Do not embrace him at once; remain a little in your sulk, and let us see for a while the ache of distress he will suffer.
Do not embrace him at once; remain a little in your sulk, and let us see for a while the ache of distress he will suffer.
Sulking is like salt in food, rightly proportioned; to let it grow beyond that little and lengthen is like too much salt.
To leave unembraced one who has sulked with us is like inflicting the pain of distress on one already in distress.
Not understanding and soothing one who has sulked is like cutting at the root of a creeper that has already withered.
The sulking of women whose eyes are like flowers is an adornment for good husbands of fine nature.
If there were no deep displeasure and no sulking, love would be like one that has lost both its ripe fruit and its tender unripe fruit.
There is a certain pain in sulking: the heart asks, thinking, 'Will the union be delayed?'
What is the use of grieving when there is no loved one near who would know that I am hurt?
Water is sweet only when it lies in the shade; so too sulking is sweet only with one who loves us dearly.
That my heart says, 'Let us unite' with her who lets her sulk wither without soothing it is nothing but its longing.