“The travelers emerged into a spacious square. In the middle of this square were several dozen people on a wooden bandstand like… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“We're going to right the world and live. I mean live our lives the way lives were meant to be lived. With… — Sandra Cisneros (Author Copy Share Image
Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I'm not sure many writers are trying to reconcile all the things that are separated in our culture - body and mind,… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
“Serena Smith,” he began gravely. “From this heartbeat until my last, I share your blood and bone, joy and grief. No words… — S.B. Nova Copy Share Image
Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“A story, I had learned, through my own constant knitting and reknitting of remembered words, can lead us back to ourselves, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.” — Mahavira Copy Share Image
Jesus never tried to hide his loneliness and dependence on other people. He chose his disciples not as servants but as friends.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he… — Kate Grenville Copy Share Image
It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Non-injury to all living beings is the only religion.” (first truth of Jainism) “In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“The people cast themselves down by the fuming boards while servants cut the roast, mixed jars of wine and water, and all… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“Harry's extremities seemed to have gone numb. He stood quite still, holding the miraculous paper in his nerveless fingers while inside him… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if… — Rachel Field Copy Share Image
