Alas Quote by Sophocles

Truth will always reassert itself, given a symbolic three days. Three days represents the time it takes between the crucifixion and the resurrection, between…

— Marianne Williamson

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime’s disappointments.”

— Silvia Hartmann

the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

— Sarah Orne Jewett

One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetimes disappointments.

— Arcine Arciniegas

The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.

— Robert South

When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.

— William Mountford

There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

— KM II

“Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.”

— Anonymous

Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. Gratitude is a many-colored quality, reaching…

— Faith Baldwin

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

— Thornton Wilder

“When I look back upon my early days I am stirred by the thought of the number of people whom I have to thank…

— Albert Schweitzer