In this crazy world, there's an enormous distinction between good times and bad, between sorrow and joy. But in the eyes of… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea… — Buddha Copy Share Image
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
“Rose couldn't say to Snow, to insist to her , that sometimes you lose someone in a way that means he will… — Emily Winfield Martin Copy Share Image
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Hope...which is whispered from Pandora's box only after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
There was a small boy on crutches. I do not know his name, and I suspect I never will. But I will… — James Randi Copy Share Image
I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose,… — Charlie Albright Copy Share Image
And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“At some point, it's time to stop fighting with death, my thighs and the way things are. And to realize that emotional… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“It is, often, in the utter despair of humanness that we become willing to consider deeply spiritual answers. Although the door and… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
Think of hope the minute you feel miserable with your life. Take up the habit of finding joy in the smallest of… — Jaejoong Copy Share Image
“It's impossible for a mind born of biology to stay strong always. You'd have to be a machine to not feel bad… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I stopped trying to rank sorrow, realized that the world has sorrow enough for all of us, and when some of it… — Beth Ann Fennelly Copy Share Image
Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceedingly thanks for the mystery which remains… — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters.… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“ For every ebb there’s a flow; for every flow there’s an ebb. The full moon must wane just as the new… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Find moments in your life in which you had communication with people. You will see that most of our tensions, disappointments ,… — Torkom Saraydarian Copy Share Image
Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Libertarians are learning to their sorrow that big businessmen cannot necessarily be relied upon to be their allies in the battle against… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I really enjoy making people laugh; I've discovered that's a great technique. That's as powerful as stirring their sorrow, stirring their compassion,… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“It's said that great sorrow is no more than a reflection of one's capacity for great joy. I see it from the… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Tired, yes, but it was more than that. Watching everything unfold had lurched me from anger to disgust and finally sorrow, had… — Kylie Ladd Copy Share Image
If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable.… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“There was nothing sweet or gentle in our last kiss; it was filled with sorrow and desperation, of the bitter knowledge that… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
When you are so full of sorrow that you can't walk, can't cry anymore, think about the green foliage that sparkles after… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are *this*, [she points to a daisy]… — Colin Higgins Copy Share Image