What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? read more

What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.

Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up

Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance
sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance
sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

We look before and after,
And pine for what is not,
Our sincerest laughter
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We look before and after,
And pine for what is not,
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.

'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, read more

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.

If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.