Worldy Pleasure Quotes & Sayings

Which was worse? Mourning the loss of something without knowing you never actually had it, or mourning the loss of what you thought you had and never had at all? — Susan Meissner

Ever at Thy glowing altar Must my heart grow sick and falter, Wishing He I served were black. — Countee Cullen

She kept saying, "My husband will be back soon. He went for help. He'll be back." But that's the kind of lie people tell sometimes when they got only strangers to rely on. There's shame in that, so people lie. — Marilynne Robinson

One of the most important things is to remind yourself of where you are from and be thankful. I don't for a second take anything for granted. That's a good way to start your day. — Colin Morgan

The more I see of the 'hounoured, famed, and great,' the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within. — Karen Swallow Prior

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances. — Robert Crumb

Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from. — Helen Van Slyke

Unfortunately, like many people who are instinctively bad at something, the Archchancellor prided himself on how good at it he was. Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association. His mental approach to it could be visualized as a sort of business flowchart with, at the top, a circle entitled "Me, who does the telling" and, connected below it by a line, a large circle entitled "Everyone else. — Terry Pratchett

Someone may have a broken heart or someone may have a broken ego. Such people will have to suffer tremendously because of that. — Dada Bhagwan

We want to bring the presence of God to the people, but forget in the process that only God Himself is able to do that. — Sunday Adelaja

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely. — Thomas Aquinas

Pain is like a storm. Falling in love is like a storm. Obesity is like a storm. One day it is there and the next day it is still there. — Abigail George

Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes
not often, but sometimes
the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong. — Matthew Scully