I can't forgive my friends for dying. I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. —Logan Pearsall Smith More about this quote Tags: forgiveness death missing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and recovered hope. —George Eliot More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's so curious: one can resist tears and "behave" very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer . . . and everything collapses. —Colette More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry More about this quote Tags: misfortune belongings Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Years ago a person, he was unhappy, didn't know what to do with himself, he'd go to church, start a revolution — something. Today you're unhappy? Can't figure it out? What is the salvation? Go shopping. —Arthur Miller More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size. —Mark Twain More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes. —John Updike More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand. —Madeleine L'Engle More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No one ever understood disaster until it came. —Josephine Herbst More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety. —Christopher Morley More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable, and noble kind of love. —Delmore Schwartz More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You are out of danger," he said. I laughed and said, "How can I be? I don't feel dead yet. —Margaret Laurence More about this quote Tags: danger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Advice to children crossing the street: Damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody. —Jackie "Moms" Mabley More about this quote Tags: attention advice danger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Violence is for fools and emergencies. The less of a fool you are, the fewer emergencies you will have. —John Maude More about this quote Tags: fools violence emergency Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email