Age Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson

“Lamentations is insurance against premature comfort, against "healing the wounds of my people lightly" During the time of ruin there are always those who…

— Eugene H. Peterson

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations…

— Anonymous

“Lamentation is the intentional process of grieving and mourning so that we can bid an honest farewell to what we’ve lost and embrace the…

— Russ Ramsey

“There is silent and long-suffering sorrow to be met with among the peasantry. It withdraws into itself and is still. But there is a…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.

— W. Sangster

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express,…

— William Shakespeare

“the pity which the spectators then exhibit is in so far a consolation for the weak and suffering in that the latter recognize therein…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till…

— John Hancock

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares.…

— Abraham Lincoln

There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear…

— Aldous Huxley

There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form…

— Octavius Winslow

“Pity, Jane, from some people is a noxious and insulting sort of tribute, which one is justified in hurling back in the teeth of…

— Charlotte Brontë