“Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go, They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all,-- There are none to decline your nectar'd wine, But alone you must drink life's gall.” MenWantNeedsTurnsFriendshipLosesPleasureDrinkWineGladGrievingRejoiceDeclineWoeNectar Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics) Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.” SometimesWould BePainPleasureGriefShareConversationSilentSatisfactionSympathyParticipationWoeDiminish Author:William Wycherley
“Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?” PeopleMenWantPainSufferingHouseGivenPleasureSittingFellowsCharitySelfishnessWoeFellow ManCorpsesMerrySitting Up Book:Redburn.His First Voyage Source: Redburn.His First Voyage
“If, as you believe there is an Almighty, Omnipresent, Omniscient God, who created the earth or universe, please let me know, first of all, as to why he created this world. This world which is full of woe and grief, and countless miseries, where not even one person lives in peace....Where is God? What is He doing? Is He getting a diseased pleasure out of it? A Nero! A Genghis Khan! Down with Him!” IfsKnowsWorldFirstsBelievePersonsEarthUniversePleasureGriefThis WorldPleaseLet MeMiseryAlmightyWoeDiseasedOmniscientNero Author:Bhagat Singh