Ashes Quote by Anna Cora Mowatt

Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the gem that…

— Belle Starr

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.”

— John Steinbeck

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man…

— Lydia M. Child

“There were no words for the weight these memories piled on his shoulders and chest, no words to capture the sense of great fortune…

— Tim McBain

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

— Lydia M. Child

“It was the strain of a forsaken lady, who after bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls her pride to her aid, desires her…

— Charlotte Brontë

“At least we're companions in misfortune”

— Dodie Smith

“Whatever she suffered, whatever loss came to her, she would throw it off, for it was not in her nature to go under. Although…

— Winston Graham

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This…

— Honore de Balzac

“It is the tragedy of a distinguished mind and a generous nature that have gone unappreciated in a conventional, unimaginative world. A victim of…

— Francis Wyndham

“She had wept until she was scrapped raw inside, empty but for the leaden weight of every memory of the life she had left,…

— Kali Wallace