Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wordsworth

The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.

Robert Ryan

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

Robert Plant

Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.

Sarah Dessen

He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected. No pity, no sadness: nothing had changed. I realized all the times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought one I wore, the feelings only I felt.

Veronica Roth

I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.

Milan Kundera

She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.

Kevin Brooks

I used to come here on my own sometimes... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness...

Jonathan Safran Foer

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Henry Rollins

Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.

Sam Altman

Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed

Sean Penn

That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.

Paul Theroux

Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.

Brennan Manning

We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would be pitiful people in deed. But the awareness of Christ's present risenness persuades us that we are buoyed up and carried on by a life greater than our own.

Edgar Allan Poe

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

Edgar Allan Poe

Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

Rita Mae Brown

Political elections are not life and death.

Thomas Sowell

Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

Edmund Burke

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Virgil

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Vincent Van Gogh

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

William Blake

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

Rudolfo Anaya

It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant.

W. H. Auden

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Vasily Grossman

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

Ursula K. Le Guin

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.