Leigh Hunt Quotes

Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.

The fool learns by suffering.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

You don't get dead and there not be consequences.

I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

Everything is sorrow for the wise.

When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.

You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness.

We weep when we are born, Not when we die!

Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.