Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Samuel Daniel

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

William Cowper

Grief is itself a medicine.

William Faulkner

There is no such thing as was—only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.

Voltaire

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

William C. Bryant

There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.

Winifred Holtby

But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless - that is enough to send one weeping to bed.

Winston Churchill

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

Sarah Silverman

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

William Blake

Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.

Miguel de Unamuno

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

Publilius Syrus

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

Leigh Hunt

Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

Margaret Atwood

The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.

Pierre Jean de Beranger

Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.

Philip Levine

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

Eli Manning

I literally and truly don't care how many points I score. I get far more satisfaction out of doing the other things that make us winners.

Lord Kelvin

I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude.

David Burnett

The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different.

Charles Baudelaire

It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

Edgar Quinet

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

Dalai Lama

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.

Dalai Lama

Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.