Crushed Quote by Robert Burns

“No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is your comforting?…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through…

— Mortimer Collins

“Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross, Join with the spite of…

— William Shakespeare

Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow…

— William Shakespeare

Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too gay; Temper…

— Paul Hamilton Hayne

Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet…

— William Shakespeare

When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill…

— John Keats

“When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom; When no fair dreams before my "mind's eye" flit,…

— John Keats

“That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against…

— William Shakespeare

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley