Being wise Quote by Thomas Gray

“Yet, ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their Paradise.…

— Thomas Gray

Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand

— Confucius

“ Hap If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing, Know that thy sorrow…

— Thomas Hardy

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter;…

— Seneca the Younger

“We are mortals all, human and nonhuman, bound in one fellowship of love and travail. No one escapes the fate of death. But we…

— Gary Kowalski

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares.…

— Abraham Lincoln

To let sorrow go his own way one gives happiness a chance

— Mario

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

— Euripides

“And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in which, therefore,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the most sorrow upon themselves

— Euripides

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

— Josh Billings

“We should not take lightly the horrible thoughts this place of death and destruction are meant to unveil. We are warned about the misery…

— John Bunyan