“They weren't penitent over what they'd attempted; their sorrow reached to the limits of their bodies and no further, all their anguish… — Ron Hansen Copy Share Image
Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Nothing came in reasonable measure, it seemed, not water or sunshine or sorrow. But joy, too, is immoderate sometimes, and that makes… — Jetta Carleton Copy Share Image
It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Your heart will be shattered by sorrow If you force it to live In tomorrow's ephemeral imagination-world Instead of in today's eternal… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust. — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“During the daytime I glut myself with sorrow and lament, having my own duties to see to, and my house-maidens' work: but… — Homer Copy Share Image
You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
“أدمنت احزاني فصرت اخاف ان لا احزنا I got addicted to my sorrows, Until I have gotten scared of not being sorrowed.… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
“When the Buddha declares there is escape from sorrow, the escape is Nirvana, which is not a place, like heaven, but a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“It sounded old. Deserve. Old and tired and beaten to death. Deserve. Now it seemed to him that he was always saying… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Every road leads to sorrow. All aspects that make life beautiful – friendship, love, art, and truth – will end. All aspects… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
There will be another day of rain. There will be another day of pain. Another day of sorrow and then you start… — Aly Johnson Copy Share Image
Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“what Tibetan Buddhists call “the inability to bear the sight of another’s sorrow,” so that we feel it almost as intensely as… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
“My particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. — A.J. Cronin Copy Share Image
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“From sunrise to sunset to sunrise, there is a lifetime of joy, sorrow and happiness.” — Sandeep N. Tripathi Copy Share Image
For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the… — Magdalena de Pazzi Copy Share Image