Angelic Quote by Victor Hugo

“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that to the…

— Charles Dickens

“The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this life, however…

— Randy Alcorn

“Miserable humanity was clamouring from the depths of its abyss of suffering, and the clamour swept along, sending a shudder down every spine, for…

— Émile Zola

“Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not seen the…

— Victor Hugo

“What madness, to love a man as something more than human! I lived in a fever, convulsed with tears and sighs that allowed me…

— St. Augustine

“he expected after the pleasant days GOD had given him, he should have his turn of pain and suffering; but that he was not…

— Brother Lawrence

“You were happy!” I exclaimed, as I returned quickly to the town, “‘as gay and contented as a man can be!’” God of heaven!…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When a person is miserable, wretched, and unhappy in himself, put him in what circumstances you please, and he is wretched still. If a…

— Heber C. Kimball

“In the ferment of our civil societies, from which the guardian angels seem to depart, we see many every moment sliding at the brink.…

— Anonymous

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

“Suddenly the idea struck me that surely it was selfish to ask Heaven for anything; would it not be better to reflect on all…

— Marie Corelli

“Oh, I know, I know that heart, that wild but grateful heart, gentlemen of the jury! It will bow before your mercy; it thirsts…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky