Bruises Quote by Oscar Wilde

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

— Oscar Wilde

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief…

— Leo Tolstoy

Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.

— Oswald Chambers

Everything that is loved, if it is not loved for His sake then this love is nothing but distress and punishment. Every action that…

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

— Alice Hegan Rice

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love.

— Moses ibn Ezra

Do all men kill the things they do not love ............ The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain…

— William Shakespeare

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

There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism,…

— Ben Okri

Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith;…

— William Shakespeare

In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.

— Mata Amritanandamayi