If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“A man in trouble laments that he did not listen to his teachers, and thus he finds himself in a sad state,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most People are wretched more by the Fears of what may come, than what they endure at present. ... a manifest Contradiction… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“If we enter our story in heartache, we will hear the whisper of the name that will one day be ours.” — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much,… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Our unclaimed Shunemite, however, can only look on. No kiss for her. Being the most beautiful woman in Israel isn't enough for… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts… — Felipe Perez Roque Copy Share Image
My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“He was a strong and noble lord with piercing eyes of grey. He sat upon his noble throne shining like the dawn.… — Laurel A. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Before I had published anything, I still hung out with people who liked to write. None of us had published, so there… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side The summer's gone, and… — Fred E. Weatherly Copy Share Image
The world is broken, and all our attempts to fix it will inevitably fail, and some day all life will be extinguished… — John Green Copy Share Image
Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
