Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.

Charles Dickens

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Charles Caleb Colton

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

Charles Dickens

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Myrtle Reed

There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

Jane Austen

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

Alan Paton

But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

William Shakespeare

Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.

John Heywood

Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.

Edmund Burke

Futurity is the great concern of mankind.

Carl Jung

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Bertrand Russell

What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.

Elias Canetti

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

Elias Canetti

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

John Armstrong

Much had he read, Much more had seen; he studied from the life, and in th' original perus'd mankind

Aristotle

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.

David Kay

Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here.

Bryan Clay

I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.

Bob Marley

Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?

Ayn Rand

It's not about who's going to let me; it's about who's going to stop me.

William Shakespeare

Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

Adoniram Judson

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

Clara Barton

Let me go, let me go.