Great saying by great authors Quote by Rebecca West

There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was…

— Cassandra Clare

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into…

— George Eliot

For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or…

— Jean Rhys

“Each moment of loss, she has come to believe, contains within it the possibility of a new life. When the unimaginable happens, and your…

— Christina Baker Kline

She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been…

— Douglas Coupland

When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness and pain,…

— Elizabeth Lesser

She realized how many of her beliefs were either unrealistic or belonged to her deceased parents and her ex-husband. She also realized that her…

— Salle Merrill Redfield

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be…

— Ayn Rand

One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out…

— Sigmund Freud

“As long as there is happiness, there will be sadness. As long as there is fortune, there will be misfortune. “…What’s real is something…

— Miyuki Miyabe

The Emptiness of a loved one is the most destructive feeling you can face in life.

— Jeremy Limn

Past happiness augments present wretchedness.

— Publilius Syrus