Bounds Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bounds Death Grief Light Sorrow Speak Tongue
At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer. — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down. — Bede Jarrett Copy Share Image
The lessons we learn in sadness and from loss are those that abide. Sorrow clarifies the mind, steadies it, and forces it to weigh… — Theodore T. Munger Copy Share Image
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
If the civil magistrate be a Christian, a disciple or follower of the meek Lamb of God, he is bound to be far from… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
We have committed ourselves to pursue joint policies, but then national governments say, "We aren't bound by that." That is a dramatic situation, because… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Christian obligation cannot be made to accord with a law of expediency. The Christian's maxims are, Do right because you are bound to do… — Francis Landey Patton Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .' She turned… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free. — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth,… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
