Accepting Quote by Anonymous

He had no idea that grief was a reward. That it only came to those who were loyal, to those who loved more than…

— Nami Mun

He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.

— Torquato Tasso

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.

— Walter Scott

“that his current state of sorrow was not uniquely his, not at all, but, rather, its like had been felt, would yet be felt,…

— George Saunders

Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living. Stripped of…

— Anonymous

And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only…

— Albert Camus

“he expected after the pleasant days GOD had given him, he should have his turn of pain and suffering; but that he was not…

— Brother Lawrence

“I believed he was naturally a man of better tendencies, higher principles, and purer tastes than such as circumstances had developed, education instilled, or…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Her father’s marvelous gentleness was not because he lacked a keen enough perception of the faults and wretchedness of others; it came from his…

— Sigrid Undset

“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only…

— Dean Koontz