"Better one suffer than a nation grieve."

-- John Dryden

#Grieving Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.”
“The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother to show it to my agent or editor. He's a truly great writer - author of Gates of the Alamo and other books you might know of, and his instincts about what's working in a story, and what's not, are just about perfect. My books would be very different without his influence.”

Source : Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com
“Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.”
“There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.”
“The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with American workers. I know that success is dead sure to come, and therefore do not waste time and words in trying to convince unbelievers.”
“There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.”

Source : Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company
“My life was a mystery even as I lived it.”

Source : "Little House on the Prairie". Book by Melissa Gilbert, www.today.com. 1971.
“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”

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