Famous Quotes & Sayings

Basil Hume

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

Deepak Chopra

Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.

Dionne Warwick

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

William Shakespeare

What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?

Maurice Maeterlinck

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

A. N. Wilson

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

A. Scott Berg

When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

Charlie Chaplin

What a sad business is being funny!

Charles Dickens

Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.

Albert Schweitzer

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

Charles Spurgeon

There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.

Charles Peguy

Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.

Dennis Prager

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

Democritus

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering....

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The cross is suffering with Christ.

Eduardo Galeano

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

Arthur Bloch

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

Mark Twain

Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

Jennifer Granholm

I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

Emile Coue

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.

Malcolm Bradbury

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

Lasse Hallstrom

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

Ted Koppel

What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.

Tony Campolo

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.