Quotation Explorer - 'Glad'

He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not; And dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? - Compton Gage
Think of Today, not Tomorrow. It’s time to be Happy, not live a Life of Sorrow. Find out those things that make you Glad & eliminate those that make you Sad. - RVM
So that was where we were in our relationship.Derwent’s scale ran all the way from wouldn’t piss-on-you-if-you-were-on-fire to would-kill-for-you-no-need-to-ask-twice. I was quite glad to be somewhere near the middle. - Jane Casey
Be glad that once you did experience that magic. It's part of who you are now, and you're richer for it. - mary esselman
I am so glad that God miraculously save my life at near-death. - Lailah Gifty Akita
...life - whatever else it is - is short... maybe even if we're not always so glad to be here, it's our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. - Donna Tartt
I was glad to be made awarethat Veimke (jeune fille au pair),is subject to natural law,and can be made fat,by such things as poor diet,and alcohol. - Roman Payne
A Parting GuestWhat delightful hosts are they—Life and Love!Lingeringly I turn away,This late hour, yet glad enoughThey have not withheld from meTheir high hospitality.So, with face lit with delightAnd all gratitude, I stayYet to press their hands and say,Thanks.—So fine a time! Good night. - James Whitcomb Riley
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth. - Mignon McLaughlin
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood. - Tom Hanks
I'm glad that life isn't like a Christmas song, because if my friends and I were building a snowman and it suddenly came alive when we put a hat on it, I'd probably freak and stab it to death with an icicle.
This is the day that the Lord hath made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. - Bible
The past might hurt but don't run from it, repeat it, or punish others for it. Learn from it and be glad that you survived it. - Rob Liano
Don't be sad that it's over.Be glad that you ever lived to see it. - A.J. Beirens
If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be. - Marcus Sedgwick
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny after ward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honour. It is human at least, if not divine. - Robert Louis Stevenson
If happiness always depended on what we had, then the richest would always be Glad, not Sad. - RVM
There are people you're glad to have them in your life, and there are people, well they're only there, nothing more nothing less. - Oussama Bounsir
We returned to our palaces, these Kingdoms, but no longer at ease here in the old dispensation, with an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death. - T.S. Eliot
As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off.
NO! Don't force yourself to be alone! If you're alive, you can meet that person, somewhere, someday! The person that will be glad that you're alive! You can't... you can't want yourself to die!! So... live... - Yukiru Sugisaki
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide. - Samuel Butler
In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show. - Janet Fitch
Her scent blazed in my throat and I was glad. It was a pain that meant she was alive. As long as I burned, she was safe. - Stephenie Meyer
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. - H. L. Mencken
I am glad that I can tell the truth, for lies are a form of theft; the liar steals from another person's trust. There are liars all over the world who have grown rich on the trust they have stolen. - Najaf Mazari
Don't worry about not doing "it" perfectly right now. It's ok, just keep at it, you will soon settle in it and then you'll be glad you didn't give up. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
I fell for you.You fell for me.Our friendship was just meant to be.I asked if you loved me, and you said you did.The next day you said that you wish you never did.I fell apart that very day, begging you to stay.You said no and pushed me away.Now this very day im glad you didnt stay - Emma Taylor
Ich bin lieber eine Frau als ein Mann. Frauen dürfen weinen, hübsche Kleider tragen, und sie werden als Erste von einem sinkenden Schiff gerettet.I'm glad that I'm a woman and not a man. Women are allowed to cry and to wear pretty dresses, and they are the first to be saved from a sinking ship. - Antonia Rau
Be glad that I'm not a horror writer, some people write about it, other make images... but third just create it??? As for me, I have create it from horror up to nightmares! - Deyth Banger
[Freud] "sat in his quiet cozy study in Vienna, glad to be back. He said to Ernest Jones, America is a mistake, a gigantic mistake. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
I once stood on a road and found I had no friends. And I was glad. Better to have no friends than to have people claim they were your friends when they were not. It is a source of strength to come to terms with your right to be alone. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. - Groucho Marx
I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad. - John Kerry
I am glad that I am not a man, for if I were I should have to marry a woman. - Madame de Stael
There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation. - Kate Chopin
Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obviously it might have been done better. - Stephen Potter
If happiness always depended on what we had, then the richest would always be Glad, not Sad.- - RVM
I would have been glad to agree to let them all proceed henceforth in complete ignorance of psychology, if they would forget my opinion of chocolate sodas or the story of the amusing episode on a Spanish streetcar. - B.F. Skinner
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. - Groucho Marx
Sir, I am a true laborer. I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes graze and my lambs suck. - William Shakespeare
You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man. - Gene Kelly
I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be anywhere. - Keith Richards
Don't wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you'll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed. - Michael Bassey Johnson
lIf someone tries to steal your watch, by all means fight them off. If someone sues you for your watch, hand it over and be glad you got away so lightly. - John Mortimer
I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars and sun. - Henry Van Dyke
Everyday there will be an opportunity to Frown or to Smile, to Drown or to Dance, to be Sad or to be Glad. It's a Choice! - RVM
With warning hand I mark time's rapid flightFrom life's glad morning to its solemn nightYet through God's love, I also showThere's light above me by the shade below. - Ralph Greenleaf Whittier
I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness. - Aldo Leopold
Think of Today, not Tomorrow. It’s time to be Happy, not live a Life of Sorrow. Find out those things that make you Glad & eliminate those that make you Sad. -RVM - R.v.m.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars. - Henry Van Dyke
Be glad for the sacred breath. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Like a father with his daughter, the writist plays peek-a-boo with the world. His aim is to evoke that sweet smile, the one that says "i remember you. I am glad you are here again". - D.A. Botta
You knew that what makes me very glad is that you are an artist. - mohammad rishad sakhi
This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am glad that I have shared in your perils -- that has been more than any baggins deserves. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Yes, life is full of awkward moments! For example, that time you keep dazing off while staring at the same person you found yourself staring at five minutes ago. *gulp* So glad staring is still not illegal. Or, at least I'm glad for my own benefit. - Mary Kate
Embrace today! Embrace the new day! Yesterday is gone forever. Tomorrow is not guaranteed. All we have is now and a great day to look forward to. Today is the day the Lord has made. Rejoice and be glad in it! - DeWayne Owens
If we can be Glad .........But we choose to be Sad, we are MAD! ! !- - RVM
They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going. - Zelda Fitzgerald
I mean, reality sucks. The world is a cancer, and shits so bad it’s scary. Everything’s filthy. But you know what? One day, it’s not going to be here. So be glad you know what life is. You’re alive. Live. - Mitch Lucker
What would the world do without tea? - how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. - Sydney Smith
I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future. - Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
And if the day I die they ask me just how heaven was, I'll be glad I spent it with you. - Brian Logan Dales
Don't worry about not doing "it" perfectly right now. It's ok, just keep at it, you will soon settle in it and then you'll be glad you didn't give up. All you need is to be sure that GOD's hand is in it. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
Milk is very nice, especially with a drop of brandy in it, but the domestic cow is only too glad to be rid of it. A swollen udder is very uncomfortable - W. Somerset Maugham
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. - Annie Besant
I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.
One should live as if the very rocks are glad you're here. - Marty Rubin
Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it. - Anne Lamott
A good friend is someone who is there for me when i'm glad or sad...who I can laugh madly with or cry badly with. - Karen Salmansohn
Don't force to become the top, but loosen up to be the top....(as in don't try hard when people are before you but be glad... instead of working up your energy for the highest honor) - Florie Jo Alicer
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Oh my eye Betty Martin! Aren't I glad it isn't me that's going to school! It looks just like a prison. - Henry Handel Richardson
Be glad that I haven't take out the pen, the rubber and the pencil once taken... all will die. - Deyth Banger
Everyday there will be an opportunity to Frown or to Smile, to Drown or to Dance, to be Sad or to be Glad. It's a Choice!- - RVM
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. - Henry Van Dyke
Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there. - Edith Wharton
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these - Ovid
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. - Herbert Butterfield
I am sure of God's hand and guidance... You must never doubt that I am thankful and glad to go the way which I am being led. My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When the resurrection sings itself in the robin's glad song, and bursting buds defy the death grip of winter, and you walk upon the yielding earth near my grave...remember that my soul is not there, but rather it is absent from the body and present with the Lord. - Carl Burnam
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