Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop

Richelle Mead

Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there was no telling how long it'd be until his next book came out.

Rebecca West

There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.

Richard Crashaw

Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.

William S. Burroughs

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

William Wycherley

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

William Shatner

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

William McFee

There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.

William McKinley

I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana during the night of the fifteenth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation.

Richelle Mead

Rose you can't go." This time the sadness in Lissa's voice was mirrored though the bond, flooding into me. "It's not that Dimitri didn't ask to see you. He asked specifically not to see you.

William S. Burroughs

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.

William Maxwell

His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.

Virginia Woolf

I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.

William Wordsworth

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.

William Wordsworth

In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.

William Wordsworth

The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.

Sara Evans

Walk out backwards if you must go, but please don't wave good-bye.

Samuel Morse

Alas, the very name of picture produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe.

Richard Paul Evans

Love is never convenient-and rarely painless

Richard J. Needham

Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.

Richard Bach

Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.

Saint Augustine

God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!

Russell Brand

Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.

Russell Brand

If love is something you cherish, it is hard to glean much joy from death, even in one's enemies.

Russell Brand

The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other. --Slavoj Zizek

Umberto Eco

Love is wiser than wisdom.

Trey Songz

Love is hard to find, but love is one of a kind.