Beast Quote by Miguel de Cervantes

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken…

— Emile Durkheim

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great…

— Oscar Wilde

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain…

— Richard Steele

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

— Dante Alighieri

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

— Peter Abelard

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

— Charles Spurgeon

There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.

— Dante Alighieri

Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.

— George Sand

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of…

— Baron de Montesquieu