Fear Quote by Samuel Johnson

If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from…

— Friedrich Schiller

the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in…

— Agnes Repplier

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

“But there is an unbounded pleasure to be had in the possession of a young, newly blossoming soul! It is like a flower, from…

— Mikhail Lermontov

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed…

— Robert South

But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.

— John James Audubon

Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.

— William Wordsworth

“People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will “lessen…

— Fredrik Backman

... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for…

— Walter Russell

Whatever you find, you also find the fear that you may lose it. Whatever you fall in love with fills you with the sorrow…

— Anonymous

“He felt like his own heart might stop beating just from acknowledging the concept. The sadness, the sorrow, and the loss, they were living…

— Adam P. Knave

“She heard hearts bounce, tears brewing, and breath going backward, but nobody said a word. By the sorrow and loss and sweetness in their…

— Peter S. Beagle