“It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.” AbleDifficultSinCasesSorrowResolveAffectedRemorse Author:Thomas a Kempis
“The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.” ThinkingFirstsLife IsCasesSorrowLessonsSmokeLife LessonOutsidersPettyExceptional Author:James Russell Lowell
“Of course I can have a simple reaction of sympathy and sorrow to destruction. But you also know that you can't have new things if you don't occasionally destroy the old. That's something you're really not allowed to say because things are often destroyed according to particular power relations so it means taking a stand in those cases, which I am not really interested in doing either. I think I am simply interested in looking.” IfsThinkingKnowsMeanI CanCoursesSimpleCasesParticularSorrowDestructionRelationReactionsDestroyedNew Things Author:Aleksandra Mir
“Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions!” MayPassionCasesVictorySorrowPrivilegeGreat PassionGreat Victory Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“There are probably very few people who have not at some time of their lives had some quality of genius. If they have not had such, it is probable that they have also been without great sorrow or great pain. They would have needed only to live sufficiently intently for a time for some quality to reveal itself. The poems of first love are a case in point, and certainly such love is a sufficient stimulus.” PeopleIfsFirstsPainLove IsQualityCasesGeniusNeededSorrowSufficientFirst LoveStimulus Book:Sex & Character Source: Sex & Character
“Kant does not think that along with choice of an action we also choose in each case the motive from which we do it. He thinks all is well if I act beneficently, realizing that it is my duty but also having sympathetic feelings for the person I help. But I ought to strive to be the sort of person who would still help even if these feelings were absent. And it is such a case that he presents when the sympathetic friend of humanity finds his sympathetic feelings overclouded by his own sorrows, and still acts beneficently from duty.” IfsThinkingWellsPersonsDoeStillsHelpingFeelingsActionHumanityChoicesRealizingCasesDutyOughtSorrowStriveMotiveAbsentSympathetic Author:Allen W. Wood
“She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.” IfsWellsSometimesWould BeSufferingWishPleasureWonderCasesImpossibleSorrowDespairSingingBoundsMonotonousMisersMuttering Book:Nausea Source: Nausea
“There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.” IfsMenGivingReasonNaturalSituationCasesCryPoetSorrowInstinctBitterSincereSympathyImpressedSublimePowerlessUtteranceSufferersOutburstVehement Book:THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Classic French Literature Source: THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Classic French Literature