Failure Quote by Richard Steele

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

The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy…

— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in…

— Robert Burton

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

What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it.

— Henry Mackenzie

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

— John Adams

What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?...

— Daniel Defoe

“It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature; or…

— Thomas Browne

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

— David Hume

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

— Confucius