Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

Charles Dickens

A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain.

Charles Dickens

Grief never mended no broken bones.

Charles Stuart Calverley

The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.

Alanis Morissette

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.

Chris Cleave

There was no quick grief for Andrew because he had been so slowly lost. First from my heart, then from my mind, and only finally from my life.

Cesare Pavese

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God loves us for ourselves. He values our love more than he values galaxies of new created worlds.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

Alexander Pushkin

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely In the flattering toils of philandery.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

Ernst Toller

At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.

Madeleine L'Engle

If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.

Joyce Carol Oates

Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.

Paulo Coelho

We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.

Leo Tolstoy

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

Charles Dickens

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

Charles Spurgeon

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Charles Spurgeon

If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.

Alanis Morissette

I want to walk through life.

Alan Watts

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

Alan Rickman

I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

Alan Greenspan

Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.

Alan Bean

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

Alain Robert

I don't want to follow the herd.