Animation Quote by Jane Porter

“The Old Man, like the French, believed that black was the only appropriate color to display and wear in order to show grief. I…

— Monique Truong

“Colours, sounds, words and actions are all imbued with specific emotions, subjectively for each experience. It's therefor a great sorrow that the sexy energy…

— Monaristw

But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely,…

— Marcel Proust

Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to…

— Henry Ward Beecher

With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!

— William Falconer

“Our theory of disaster, of sorrow, of affliction, borrowed from the poets and novelist, is that it is incessant; but every passage in our…

— William Dean Howells

“Something is always born out of too deep grief. Just when you grope for balance, art is born out of a compelling desire to…

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

Sorrow is so woven through us, so much a part of our souls, or at least any understanding of our souls that we are…

— Christian Wiman

Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come…

— Aristotle

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

— Horace Greeley