Thomas Gray Quotes

That's why I'm never happy. Every tragedy, I really feel very painful - especially about a child or old people. This is reality. We try to close eyes and ears, but it's happening every second, and somehow, unfortunately, I feel a connection.

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

Everyone is in pain.No matter where they come from or what you think of them. Sorrow spares no one

Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

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.

People aren't very good at other people's pain.

Human suffering is not a competitive sport.

Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.

We're like everybody else. We hurt like everybody.

We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

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

Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.