Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.

C. S. Lewis

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

Agnes Repplier

A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

Charlotte Bronte

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

Charlotte Bronte

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and to burst with boldness and good-will into the silent sea of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations.

Charlotte Bronte

The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,--and to speak.

Charles Dickens

Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.

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.

C. S. Lewis

You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.

C. S. Lewis

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

Agnes Martin

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

Darren Shan

If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.

Byron Katie

Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?

Carter G. Woodson

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.

Jandy Nelson

Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever

Jane Austen

Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

Jane Austen

One word from you shall silence me forever.

Bryan Adams

I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.

Alan Watts

There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.

Bruce Campbell

It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will never go away.

Charlie Munger

The SEC does way more good than harm - the last thing I would do is get rid of the SEC...if accounting were thoroughly fixed, a lot of other sins would go away. We're paying a huge price for deterioration of accounting.

Bob Saget

When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.

Bill Vaughan

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.

Edward Gorey

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

Edward Gorey

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.

Eddie Vedder

If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.