David Hume Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

• A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

  David Hume

  Real, Joy, Sorrow

  David Hume (1788). “Essays, moral, political, and literary.- v. 2. An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.152

• Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

  David Hume

  Powerful, Sorrow, Influence

  David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.263

• Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.

  David Hume

  Ocean, Gay, Thinking

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.4068, Delphi Classics

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