Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
Sophie Swetchine
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
Diarist
Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Must
Mitigated
Shared
Grief
Wear
Sorrow
Either
More quotes by Sophie Swetchine
He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
Sophie Swetchine
I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
Sophie Swetchine
When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
Sophie Swetchine
To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
Sophie Swetchine
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
Sophie Swetchine
Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
Sophie Swetchine
Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
Sophie Swetchine
Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.
Sophie Swetchine
In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
Sophie Swetchine
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
Sophie Swetchine
There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
Sophie Swetchine
Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
Sophie Swetchine
There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
Sophie Swetchine
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
Sophie Swetchine
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Sophie Swetchine
What I value most next to eternity is time.
Sophie Swetchine
Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
Sophie Swetchine
To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
Sophie Swetchine
Piety softens all that courage bears.
Sophie Swetchine
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
Sophie Swetchine
