Love's pleasures last but a moment; love's sorrow last all through life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“We shall enjoy it As for him who finds fault, may silliness and sorrow take him!” — Sappho Copy Share Image
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow and spend my days in shame? (Jer. 20:18)” — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Don't worry for your future needs, It will only bring sorrow,But give them to God instead-He will take care of your tomorrow.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger.” — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“I had been right the first time. His sonorous voice echoed through a hollow place of sorrow, catching its reverberations from those… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens,… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“As a kid I heard the word malignancy as "Malig-Nancy" like an evil woman's name, no matter how many times Kiwi and… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
What relief! What comfort! What joy! Those laden with transgressions and sorrows and sin may be forgiven and cleansed and purified if… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
“The state of mind above which my distraction floats like fog is suddenly perfectly clear, though the right word for it is… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We are not made up only of our light and happiness but also of darkness and sorrow. To deny the darkness of… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“And the days move on and the names of the months change and the four seasons bury one another and it is… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“Love Sorrow Love sorrow. She is yours now, and you must take care of what has been given. Brush her hair, help… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Everything has its price: sorrow for happiness; birth for love; death for birth.” — Mikhail Shishkin Copy Share Image
