Sophocles Quotes
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When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
Irvin Mayfield -
We are not by nature cruel.
J. M. Coetzee -
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Ouida -
Aristocracy is always cruel.
Wendell Phillips -
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde -
Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. Travers
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
Barbara Sher -
In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
J. M. Coetzee -
I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.
Vicki Lawrence -
I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.
Nancy Sinatra -
We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
Oswald Chambers -
Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
Oswald Chambers
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[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
A.J. Cronin -
Lack of knowledge is the
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
William Shakespeare
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They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are so obstinate that even at the point of death their heart does not draw back from malice, it is possible to make a quite probable judgment that they would never come away from evil.
Thomas Aquinas -
It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.
Oscar Wilde -
My first degree was in mathematics. That was great, but it didn't help with many of the things that puzzled me. I became a philosopher because I wanted to understand everything, especially those things that didn't make sense. And that has continued to be my philosophical motivation. That's one reason I have such a roving philosophical eye - once I have figured out a philosophical topic to my satisfaction, I find myself moving on to new problems.
David Papineau -
To revive sorrow is cruel.
Sophocles