“We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.”
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François de La Rochefoucauld
4 quotes“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”
Ernest Hemingway
3 quotes“Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.”
Goethe
3 quotes“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”
Horace
3 quotes“Anger is a brief madness.”
Erica Jong
2 quotes“Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or...”
Wayne W. Dyer
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Nicola Yoon
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William Butler
2 quotes“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”
Roger Ebert
2 quotes“We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fa...”
Flaubert
2 quotes“Irony takes nothing away from pathos.”
Terry Pratchett
2 quotes“Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.”
H.P. Lovecraft
2 quotes“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”