Art Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain,…

— William Shakespeare

“Be calm! I entreat you to hear me before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head. Have I not suffered enough,…

— Mary Shelley

“Thy shrunk voice sounds too calmly, sanely woeful to me. In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is…

— Herman Melville

“All I was capable of, even deep in misery, was rhetoric and belles-lettres, it was all talk.”

— Knut Hamsun

“No, thou art come too late, Empedocles! And the world hath the day, and must break thee, Not thou the world. With men thou…

— Matthew Arnold

And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are…

— Fitz-Greene Halleck

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express,…

— William Shakespeare

“At the least, bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully. And although thou be very unwilling to hear it, and feel indignation, yet check…

— Thomas à Kempis

Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too gay; Temper…

— Paul Hamilton Hayne

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by…

— Anonymous

Pain, thou art not an evil

— Alexandre Dumas

“The more I disliked myself the more wretched I grew. The difference now was that this mood did not manifest itself in sullen silence;…

— Victoria Holt