All strange and terrible events are welcome,
But comforts we despise; our size of sorrow,
Proportion'd to our cause, must be as great.
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William Shakespeare, in Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, sc. 13, Cleopatra responding to Charmains request to "be comforted."Cleopatra VII
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Charmain: Be comforted, dear madam.
Cleopatra: No, I will not.
All strange and terrible events are welcome,
But comforts we despise; our size of sorrow,
Proportion'd to our cause, must be as great.Antony and Cleopatra
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain) Clemens
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
Mark Twain
Something terrible came to the hills and valleys on that meteor, and something terrible — though I know not in what proportion — still remains.
H. P. Lovecraft
There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whose laws we must study, and to whose conditions we must submit, if we would mitigate it.
Sheridan Le Fanu
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