Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Estes

I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't.

Salma Hayek

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

William Butler Yeats

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned...

William Butler Yeats

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

Walter Scott

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Yogi Berra

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

Samuel Johnson

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Samuel Johnson

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

Yoko Ono

Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

Richard Perle

When you gaze into souls, it's something you should update periodically, because souls can change.

Richelle Mead

Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.

Richelle Mead

I left her there crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back on her now, I felt another piece die as well. Soon there wouldn't be anything left inside me.

Richard Bach

What was the question? ...Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few years, from my wife. Now when I have questions I ask her and she tells me the answer. If you haven't already, I'd suggest you want to find your soulmate, as soon as you can. Next question?

William S. Burroughs

I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer.

William Law

The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.

William Wordsworth

A deep distress has humanised my soul.

William Wordsworth

Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.

William Wordsworth

The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.

William Saroyan

In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.

Samuel Johnson

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

Samuel Richardson

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

William Faulkner

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

William Blake

Can I see another's woe, / And not be in sorrow too?

James Joyce

Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

Louis MacNeice

There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces The guttural sorrow of the refugees.

Emile Zola

When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.

Epictetus

The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.