Calmness Quote by Holbrook Jackson

Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent vast hostility…

— Jim Perrin

“For human nature is such that grief and pain—even simultaneously suffered—do not add up as a whole in our consciousness, but hide, the lesser…

— Primo Levi

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

— Blaise Pascal

What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.

— Adi Shankara

There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he…

— Blaise Pascal

“...sometimes changes bring rivers of tears, feelings of helplessness and despair, but paradoxically, it is precisely in the transition that we build our power…

— Micaela Becattini

“Most writers on the emotions and on human conduct seem to be treating rather of matters outside nature than of natural phenomena following nature's…

— Baruch Spinoza

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which…

— Lord Melbourne

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough…

— Joseph Addison

“Each man has his own sorrows not known to others; Real man handles problems and make it seemed easy, So others will see things…

— Rhoendyl RCruz