5 Thomas Gray Quotes on Suffering

Thomas Gray quotes on suffering

1. Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!

2. What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.

14. Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond today.

16. To each his suff'rings: all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan, The tender for another's pain; Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

46. Visions of glory, spare my aching sight, Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!