Effort Quote by Ann Radcliffe

O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and…

— Ann Radcliffe

“Vain is your boast in that you have scratched the sole of my foot... A worthless coward can inflict but a light wound. When…

— Homer

“For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,”

— Khalil Gibran

“How mournful can be the words of an artist, concealed among the beggars and the roses?”

— Joso Skarica

“All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story”

— Boris Cyrulnik

“there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent…

— Charles Dickens

“The sorrow never dies; it is merely pearled by time. No”

— Greg Bear

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great…

— Oscar Wilde

“This was not to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some greater change, that she did not experience some of…

— Marcel Proust

“The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of…

— Dean Koontz

“I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and conscience, turned…

— Charlotte Brontë

The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion…

— John Steinbeck