Quote by Jane Austen

“Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep affliction,…

— Jane Austen

“Some sorrows are so large they cannot be carried by a single pair of hands...”

— Laura Kauffman

“The most uncouth of our afflictions is to despise our being. Rather than trying to cut ourselves in two, we should cease waging civil…

— Alain de Botton

“[M]y sensitivity was unfortunately even more monstrous than my grotesqueness. Yes, my grotesqueness; I possess the courage to judge myself without pity, and to…

— Igino Ugo Tarchetti

“Your efforts to instil either vainglory or false modesty into the patient will therefore be met from the Enemy’s side with the obvious reminder…

— C.S. Lewis

“We should accept indiscriminately all His dispensations, whether obscurity or illumination, fruitfulness or barrenness, weakness or strength, sweetness or bitterness, temptations, distractions, pain, weariness,…

— Madame Guyon

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because…

— Simone Weil

“Indeed, a faint hypnopædic prejudice in favour of size was universal. Hence the laughter of the women to whom he made proposals, the practical…

— Aldous Huxley

It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity;…

— Howard Barker

“The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.” (VII)”

— Aristotle

“There are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the…

— George Eliot

“So it is sometimes with the most good-natured people of weak nerves, who in spite of their kindliness are carried away till they find…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky