Kural 1318 · தும்முச் செறுப்ப அழுதாள் நுமர்உள்ளல்
When I suppressed my sneeze, she wept, saying, 'Are you hiding from me that your people are thinking of you?'
The Eighteen Lesser Texts, including the Thirukkural.
When I suppressed my sneeze, she wept, saying, 'Are you hiding from me that your people are thinking of you?'
Even if I try to soothe her sulk, she gets angry, saying, 'You are of this very nature to others too.'
Even if I look at her with loving thought, she gets angry, saying, 'You look so intently; thinking of whom do you look?'
Even if he is free from any fault, sulking has the power to make his grace grow richer in return.
Though the good grace of love may wither a little through the small distress that arises from sulking, it gains in distinction.
Among lovers mingled as water with earth, is there a heaven better than sulking?
Within the sulk, even as I do not let go of the embrace, there arises a force that breaks my heart.
Even for those who are faultless, there is a certain delight in being a little apart from the soft shoulders of the one they love.
Sweeter than the eating is the digesting of what has been eaten; so too in love, the sulk is sweeter than the union.
Those who lose in a sulk are in truth the winners; that victory will surely be seen in the union.