Sobs Quotes
55 quotes by 49 authors
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The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last.
— Richard Sibbes
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Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say to us, 'Vile…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still…
— Andrea Dworkin
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There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that may be hidden…
— William George Jordan
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You can cry in public as long as you don not sob. Tears are transparent. If you’re walking fast, if the sun’s too strong, no…
— Jerry Pinto
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Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.
— Alexander Herzen
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There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must…
— George Eliot
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For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,- Weeps like a tired child who had, Playing with flowers,…
— Helen Hunt Jackson
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He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing,…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal of the truth…
— Frederic Chopin
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Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and…
— Jonny Lee Miller
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I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my bed and wandered…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
— Mark Twain
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Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep; a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep.
— Noel Coward
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I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and…
— Carrie Fisher
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
— O. Henry
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We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring.…
— Boris Pasternak
Who Wrote These Sobs Quotes
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