Nature of man Quote by Thomas Merton

“Emotions that are forced always end in tragedy”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue, Death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real suffering is…

— Albert Camus

“Our emotions are different but we have them. We never cast a cold eye on life or death. Don't misunderstand our seeming serenity. After…

— Anne Rice

“How indeed is it possible for one human being to be sorry for all the sadness that meets him on the face of the…

— E.M. Forster

“Human emotions are so foolish to them, and human minds and hearts so fragile.”

— Cassandra Clare

“Emotions are but one category of the many different mental formations we can have. They come, they stay for a while, and then they…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“The roots of our grief coil so deeply into loss that death has come to live with us like a family member who makes…

— Susan Abulhawa

“But emotion, for most people, too often is like some sort of slumbering giant, lulled to sleep by preoccupation with the dead facts of…

— Dwight V. Swain

“Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftimes we call a man cold when he is only…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Death always the enemy of emotion

— Lara Flores

“Of course we lose them, everyone we try to hold on to, the fates disdain us, make us small, pathetic. When we cry for…

— Jo Nesbø

“Tragic phrases comfort the heart… Without them, sorrow would be too heavy for men to bear.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky