The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
This fire is burning, my wrists are bleeding, I have thought of our time, but nothing I do, can take back the… — Oliver Copy Share Image
In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib Copy Share Image
It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
“All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to… — Bill Bass Copy Share Image
To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, Why did this happen to me? unless we ask the same question for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being (or feeling as) a poet is also to weep sorrows behind the smile of a pen. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down. — Bede Jarrett Copy Share Image
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
In one way, it's a relief I know I'll never have another child. I don't live with the sorrow I had when… — Amanda Redman Copy Share Image
Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image