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.

Charles Dickens

Are there no prisons?

Charles Dickens

Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison.

Charles Spurgeon

Pardon ever follows sincere repentence.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are worse prisons than words.

Alan Moore

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

Edmund Burke

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

Brendan Behan

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

Chaka Khan

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

David Henry Hwang

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

Owen Hart

It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.