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Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Contarini Fleming (1832), Part 1, Chapter 13
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Vivian Grey (1826), Book VI, Chapter 7
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Crime and Punishment (1867), Part III, Chapter VIn context
- Intelligence
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet, tender joy.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book VI: The Russian Monk, Chapter IIn context
I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,
But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire,
Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine
Ernest Dowson1867–1900Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae (1891)In context
- Love
The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellant man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Sign of the Four (1890), Chapter IIIn context
- Character
- Thinking
Moral wounds have this peculiarity,⁠—they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume Four, Chapter 86In context
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,⁠—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Paul Laurence Dunbar1872–1906We Wear the Mask (1895)In context
- Truth & Lies
I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Why Socialism? (1949)
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George Eliot1819–1880Daniel Deronda (1876), Book 3, Ch. 24
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
George Eliot1819–1880Adam Bede (1859)
- Beauty
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book II: Old and Young, Chapter XXIn context
It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
George Eliot1819–1880Silas Marner (1861), Part I, Chapter XIIIn context
These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.
George Eliot1819–1880The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book First: Boy and Girl, Chapter VIn context
- Children
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Preludes (1915)In context