In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.Abraham Lincoln
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.Albert Camus
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.Albert Camus
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.Benjamin Franklin
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.Bernard Shaw
Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.Dalai Lama
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.John F. Kennedy