Joseph Heller Quotes

She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.

Joseph Heller

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• The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Learn
  • Sorrow
  • Sympathy

• Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • Great
  • Sorrow

• Lack of knowledge is the

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Knowledge
  • Pain
  • Sorrow

• When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Inspiration

• My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Words

• The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Heart
  • Man

• Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Deep
  • Sorrow
  • Increase

• That each sorrow has its purpose, By the sorrowing oft unguessed, But as sure as the sun brings morning, Whatever is-is best.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Morning
  • Purpose
  • Sun

• Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Night
  • Black
  • Sea

• You are the epitome of the word selfless, you did something knowing you wouldn't be able to come home, knowing that your country would have very mixed feelings and yet your integrity on what you believe was right or wrong or should be public knowledge was more important to you than almost your own comfortability and the life that you had lived for so long. So I would like say thank you to him.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Word
  • Selfless
  • Epitome

• To revive sorrow is cruel.

  

  Sophocles
  • Sorrow
  • Cruel
  • Revive

• When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Joy
  • Sorrow
  • Disappointments

• Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Grief
  • Humble
  • Sorrow

• My rage is gone, And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up. Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one. Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully, Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury, Yet he shall have a noble memory. Assist.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Book
  • Memories
  • Helping

• Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • War
  • Sorrow
  • Kings

• We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Savage
  • Epitome
  • Mythologized

• Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

  

  William Blake
  • Sorrow
  • Laughs
  • Weeps

• Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

  

  William Blake
  • Sorrow
  • Relief
  • Woe

• War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is only by dwelling on these, and keeping out of sight the sufferings and sorrows, and all the crimes and evils that follow in its train, that it has its glory in the eyes of men.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Men
  • War
  • Evil

• A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.

  

  Michel Platini
  • Action
  • Football
  • Player

• I love dressing up, although that doesn't mean necessarily on the school run.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • School
  • Mean
  • Necessarily

• I'm a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn't miss it.

  

  Rick Moranis
  • Movies
  • Difficult
  • Parent

• Pop music is a difficult term to define. I think about good music and bad music. Good music is good music whatever origin it comes from.

  

  Nina Persson A Camp
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Difficult

• She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Sorrow
  • Epitome