(35 quotes found)
“What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.”
Buddha
“How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. . . . If it was only the other way! If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old! For this--for this--I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give!”
Oscar Wilde
“Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly stays”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.”
Bible
“It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.”
Mark Twain
“The waters wild went o'er his child, / And he was left lamenting.”
Thomas Campbell
“I was sorry to have my name mentioned among the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off”
“Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All hallows Eve... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon.”
Kim Elizabeth
“Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine”
