Abolition Quote by Frederick Douglass

Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world.

— Kent Nerburn

So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

— John Sutherland Bonnell

It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky…

— Albert Camus

“We feel happy when we accomplish something great, and our hearts filled with satisfaction about what we achieved”

— Anonymous

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Tucked inside the moments of this great sadness - this feeling of being punctured, scrambling and stricken - were also moments of the brightest,…

— Emily Rapp

I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded…

— Gabrielle Roy

I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone,…

— Albert Camus

Everything necessary to the full and complete expression of the most boundless experience of joy is mine now.

— Ernest Holmes

I had great moments in my life and I'm happy with what I achieved.

— Nicolas Anelka

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin…

— Horatio Nelson

“Suddenly the idea struck me that surely it was selfish to ask Heaven for anything; would it not be better to reflect on all…

— Marie Corelli