Arbitrary Quote by C. S. Lewis

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

— Anonymous

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

— Samuel Johnson

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

— Samuel Johnson

Grief is a process, not a state.

— Anne Grant

The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving…

— Gustav Landauer

'State' can be a word that is a noun or a verb or an adverb - it's kind of why I chose that title.…

— Todd Rundgren

Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when…

— Samuel Johnson

The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.

— William Cowper

“The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving…

— Gustav Landauer

The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side.…

— Henrik Ibsen

An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.

— James R. Thompson

The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti