Vale Of Tears Quotes

#1. The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.

Joyce Carol Oates

#2. The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.

Charles Simeon

#3. The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.

John Keats

#5. Life is a vale of tears in which there are moments you just can't stop giggling.

Robert Breault

#6. And we passed through the cavern of rats.
And we passed through the path of boiling steam.
And we passed through the country of the blind.
And we passed through the slough of despond.
And we passed through the vale of tears.
And we came, finally, to the ice caverns.

Harlan Ellison

#7. Read your Bible, child; this world is not a paradise but a vale of tears.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us. But it is clear that we make our own misery.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#9. Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#10. WHILE THE WORLD IS not a vale of tears, there are times when it seems more so than others. As strong as we may be, these are the times we need a special power - the potent strength of the Divine Feminine.

Kris Waldherr

#11. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.

John Milton

#12. LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.

Ambrose Bierce

#13. Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above. unmeasured by the flight of years; and all that life is love.

James Montgomery

#14. Life may be a vale of tears, all right, but there are some folks who enjoy weeping, I reckon.

L.M. Montgomery

#15. We live in a vale of tears ... We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.

Paulo Coelho

#16. She did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously.

Isabel Allende

#17. ... the world was a vale of tears - it always had been.

Alexander McCall Smith

#18. If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

Claude Vorilhon

#19. Life is a " vale of tears" a period of trial and suffering, an unpleasant but necessary preparation for the afterlife where alone man could expect to enjoy happiness - Archibald T. MacAllister (The Inferno; Dante Alighieri translated by John Ciardi)

Dante Alighieri

#20. It was what his mother would have done in the circumstances. Boiled some fresh water, warmed the pot and counted out the spoonfuls of tea. Setting domestic order against the chaos, in the hope of winning some temporary reprieve from the vale of tears.

Clive Barker

#21. The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership.

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

#22. Don't mourn, Organise

Joe Hill

#23. In perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale. (Forever and ever, brother, hail and farewell.)

Catullus

#24. She indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.

Charles Dickens

#25. Behind me there are already so many memories ( ... ) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for ... I just don't want to go along it.

Ivan Turgenev

#26. Bias and prejudice make me angry ... more than anything.

Rod Serling