Amount Quote by Bertrand Russell

Perhaps not all spirits are meant for this world, but they pass through anyway and change for the better those which are.

— Ryan Winfield

Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The death of the spirit is the price of progress.

— Eric Voegelin

It is our human lot, it is heaven's will, that sorrow follow joy.

— Plautus

If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won’t just dissipate and disappear.…

— Elizabeth Lesser

We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to…

— Benjamin Franklin

There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and texture of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

When your spirit is alive, when somebody has got a strong spirit, they could be on the verge of death physically, and they'll leak…

— Tony Robbins

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

— Washington Irving

Know that death comes to everyone, and that wealth will sometimes be acquired, sometimes lost. Whatever griefs mortals suffer by divine chance, whatever destiny…

— Pythagoras

The body's ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit…

— Michael Flynn

There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whose laws…

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu