Beautiful Quote by William Davenant

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

— Miguel de Cervantes

For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote,…

— Walter de La Mare

Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.

— Oswald Chambers

No memories of felicity savewith faint ruffle of sorrow

— Anonymous

Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There…

— Oscar Wilde

Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked…

— Rumi

How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.

— John Keats

“Sometimes Felicity is as much a mystery to me as the location of the Temple. She is spiteful and childish one minute, lively and…

— Libba Bray

“There is neither happiness nor misfortune in this world, there is merely a comparison between one state and another, nothing more. Only someone who…

— Alexandre Dumas

The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.

— Georges Rodenbach

As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends.

— African Proverb