Chance Quote by William Shakespeare

“You know that book of poems I’m always carrying around? [...] In one of her poems, she calls hope the ‘thing with feathers,’ and…

— Roshani Chokshi

“Hope is not the thing with feathers. Hope is an anchor. What keeps you from floating away. Despair is weightless.”

— Matt Greene

“Hope had been that thing with burnt feathers buried in her soul, but now it was waking up, stretching, beating fresh wings in the…

— Shannon Hale

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

— Rumi

Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“You may have misery," she continued, ignoring my plea, "you may lose hope in the sorrow of an unplanned life but as long as…

— Fisher Amelie

“Away There is no sorrow Time heals never; No loss, betrayal, Beyond repair. Balm for the soul, then, Though grave shall sever Lover from…

— Walter de la Mare

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

— Lydia M. Child

Though sorrow may impede my heart, It is of great love to have known you.

— Anonymous

That sorrow is tragic and kills you exact, when love still alive and hope is dead.

— Senoraroy

“One that is ever kind said yesterday: 'Your well-beloved's hair has threads of grey, And little shadows come about her eyes; Time can but…

— William Butler Yeats