Cannons Quote by Charles Baudelaire

It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the…

— Andrew Sean Greer

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

— Edward Abbey

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world…

— Albert Schweitzer

The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims,…

— George D. Prentice

The passion of rescue reveals the highest dynamic of the human soul.

— Kurt Hahn

If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as…

— William Shakespeare

I hear a thunder in the distance; see a vision of the cross. I feel the pain that was given on a sad day…

— Scott Stapp

Even in the middle of tragedy, we find moments of humor, moments of tenderness, of simple happiness.

— Josh Holloway

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for…

— Anonymous

For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must…

— Anonymous

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

— Hippocrates

To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their…

— Yukio Mishima