Famous Quotes & Sayings

Turkish Proverb

Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood

Anthony Trollope

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

David Paul

For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

Amelia Barr

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

Ambrose Bierce

Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

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.

Martin Luther

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Mason Cooley

Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.

Source Unknown

Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.

Edmund Burke

Never despair, but if you do, work in despair

Sorin Cerin

Nevertheless, love was given to us not only as fulfilment, as ideal, but as suffering, hopelessness, despair too. Is it all this the shield of this vanity called dream of our life or Illusion of Life?

George Santayana

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

George Santayana

If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.

George R. R. Martin

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

Flannery O'Connor

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.

Brandon Sanderson

People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.

Donald Trump

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

Sam Ewing

Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

Grace Paley

It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Marianne Faithfull

Well, I really didn't enjoy some of the movies I did when I was young.

Joseph Pilates

If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Agatha Christie

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.