Accidents Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes. Who alone suffers, suffers most i' the mind, Leaving…

— William Shakespeare

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with…

— Lydia Sigourney

[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others;…

— Immanuel Kant

There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes…

— Stevie Smith

Death always the enemy of emotion

— Lara Flores

Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind, Leaving free things and happy shows behind; But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip When…

— William Shakespeare

“External enemies, however brutal they are, only affect us during one lifetime. They have no power to harm us beyond this life. On the…

— Dalai Lama XIV

There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against…

— Marilyn Ferguson

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...

— Martin Seligman

There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just…

— John Wyndham