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

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

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.

Etty Hillesum

I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues...

Francesca Lia Block

Stories are like genies...They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like genies, everyone has one. Like genies, sometimes we forget that we do. Our stories can set us free...When we set them free.

Vernon Howard

You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

Plato

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

Harry S Truman

I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.

Robert D. Hare

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

Madeleine L'Engle

Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.

Greg Behrendt

I'm certain prison is pretty rough as it is but imagine if you were a murderer and a foodie!