Sadness
Tears are the silent language of grief.
—Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet 1694-1778 French writer)
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
—Marcel Proust (1871-1922 French novelist)
Grief is itself a medicine.
—William Cowper (1731-1800 British poet)
He best can pity who has felt the worse.
—John Gay (1685-1732 British poet and dramatist)
No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life; or temperate, who regards pleasure as the highest good.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C. Roman statesman and orator)
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
—Michel Eyguem Montaigne (1533-1592 French essayist)
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.
—William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British playwright and poet)
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
—Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C. Roman writer)
There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.
—Dante Alighieri (1265-1321 Italian poet)
What’s the use of worrying? /It never was worthwhile, /So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, /And smile, smile, smile.
—George Asaf (1880-1951 British songwriter)
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882 American poet)
It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
—John Milton (1608-1674 British poet)
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
—Napoleon (Bonaparte 1762-1821 French Emperor)
Better one suffer, than a nation grieve.
—John Dryden (1631-1700 English playwright and Poet Laureate)
Great souls suffer in silence.
—German proverb