Courage Quote by Virginia Woolf

“This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.”

— Virginia Woolf

“In youth I played and learned...in manhood I worked for family and others...with age I sought understanding and beauty. When death comes, it will…

— Michael Gray Calvert

“In the healing ways of women that remained mysterious to [him] even as he watched them do their work, tears were followed by reminiscences…

— Dean Koontz

“We loved—and were fated to sorrow. But from our striving and from our sorrow we fashioned The Oldest Story in the World.”

— Ross Lockridge Jr

“I envied his inspiration, his optimism in focusing back on the painful but glorious days. They were caring days, when we knew what we…

— Bao Ninh

“Unlike men, women got less sintimental as we aged, I was discovering. We cried enough, when we were young; vessels overflowing with the tears…

— Melanie Benjamin

“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 times, the seasons, the signs may have been mythical; but the sufferings were not. I lay in the dark with the breathing of…

— M.T. Anderson

“Alas! They were so young, so beautiful, so lonely, loving, helpless, and the hour was that in which the heart is always full, annd,…

— George Gordon Byron

“Helplessness. If women were hope´s oldest companions, it was due to helplessness. Certainly women often exerciced dreadful power over a single hearth, but the…

— R. Scott Bakker

“The moment was like a tear in the fabric of their love play; underneath, the dark waters of past and future anguish lent poignancy…

— Mary Jo Putney

“We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually…

— Philip Pullman