Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come…

“It is in the moments when the mind is most active and the fewest things are forgotten that the most intense joys are experienced.…

— Bertrand Russell

Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas…

— Alison Gopnik

“What he and many people don't understand is that there is more to depression than a sometimes overwhelming feeling of inadequacy and hopelessness and…

— Elliot Perlman

The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility. I have…

— Pearl S. Buck

Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was overwhelmed at…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The angels in heaven covered their eyes with their hands and sobbed loudly, because that is what they always do when a man hits…

— Guus Kuijer

Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism,…

— Felipe Perez Roque

If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively,…

— Marjorie Garber

Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to…

— Emile Chartier

“Pain, too, comes from depths that cannot be revealed. We do not know whether those depths are in ourselves or elsewhere, in a graveyard,…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and…

— Richard Marx

There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.

— Libba Bray

“That’s really what grief has taught me. That I can survive. I used to be afraid that if I experienced grief it would overcome…

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“The good reporters of that era, those who were well educated and who were enlightened themselves and worked for enlightened organizations, liked the Kennedys…

— David Halberstam

“Love can excuse anything except meanness; but meanness kills love, cripples even natural affection; without esteem true love cannot exist.”

— Charlotte Brontë