Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism there can be no epic with artillery.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!

Work is the best thing to make us love life.

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it.

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.