Sorrow doesn't kill, but it blights.
Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted." "Which do we live on - a splendid one ...
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes intense desire.
Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it so. The way to produce fine fruit is to blight the flower. You call this a paradox. Marry, so be it.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
(Watching her) was a little like watching water lilies; rather more like smelling a dinner he was not allowed to eat. Was it possible to be starved for so long as to forget the taste of food, for the pangs of hunger to burn out like ash? It seemed so...
Love is always ready to deny itself, to give, sacrifice, just in the measure of its sincerity and intensity. Perfect love is perfect self-forgetfulness. Hence where there is love in a home, unselfishness is the law. Each forgets self and lives for ot...
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
Because it is on the anvil of pain that the gods forge heroes.
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.
Death is lighter than a feather, but Duty is heavier than a mountain.
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!
these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity.
I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.
I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.
There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow.
It happened every single day in Brooklyn: awaken to fresh glory, fall asleep to blight and ruin.
