“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Source: King Henry VI, Part 3
Source: Spirit Bound
“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Source: King Henry VI, Part 3
Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer
Source: Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why It Often Sucks in the City, or Who Are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic
Dante Alighieri book Paradiso
Canto XXXIII, lines 85–87 (tr. Ciardi).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
“To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.”
Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer
“Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
Henri de Lubac (1896–1991) Jesuit theologian and cardinal
Job 11:7
Source: Catholicism (1938), Ch. XI. "Person and Society", p. 186