“Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which is the sequence to hope; then he began to doubt his own innocence, which justified in some measure the governor's belief in his mental alienation; and then, relaxing his sentiment of pride, he addressed his supplications, not to God, but to man. God is always the last resource. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.”
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Sad Quotes — page 99 of 475
“When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.”
“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
“The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.”
“We are America. We are the coffin fillers. We are the grocers of death. We pack them in crates like cauliflowers.”
“I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.”
“You must never allow something that happened to you to become a morbidly treasured heirloom that you carry, show people, put back in its black velvet pouch and then tuck back into your jacket where you can keep it close to your heart.”
“From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.”
“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.”
“Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.”
“The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies.”
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
“Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.”
“Venus smiles not in a house of tears.”
“To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.”
“Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.”
“When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.”
“Weep I cannot; But my heart bleeds.”
“Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.”
“An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.”