Famous Quotes & Sayings

Turkish Proverb

Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood

Alfred Adler

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Richard Matheson

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

Victor Hugo

He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.

Victor Hugo

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

Robert Burns

In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

Rajneesh

There is no sorrow except in captivity.

Nick Cave

Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.

Philip James Bailey

Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

Ayn Rand

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

Bryant H. McGill

We can each immediately liberate ourselves as victims in the world, through solidifying an intent to act.

Bryant H. McGill

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

Charles Colson

The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.

Jared Diamond

Science is often misrepresented as "the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory." Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.

Janine Benyus

Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

Daniel Handler

When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Dana Delany

Remember that you create your world. It’s not what happens to you, but how you choose to deal with it.