Departed Quote by Robert Blair Download Open image “Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.” — Robert Blair ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Departed Happiness Joy Nostalgia Painful Remembrance Return
We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy...Without the pain of farewell, there is no joy… — George Vaillant Copy Share Image
“There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society. — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness. — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard, Those bold insurancers… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt. — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
But if there be an hereafter,And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'dAnd suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,Then must it be an awful thing… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud. — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:—this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious. — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Leo couldnt deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with The Aviator, but I will go on record to say I will do so in… — Anthony Anderson Copy Share Image
Those who grieve frequently find themselves alone. Missed is the laughter of children, the commotion of teenagers, and the tender, loving concern of a… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I am indeed a fortunate man and today's hours are but a bonus, undeserved. Why have I been allowed to live this extra day… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy… — Hervey Allen Copy Share Image
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
