More From Joseph Roux
- "The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable."
- "Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired."
- "We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."
More In Poetry
- "In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you’re not paid a lot as an actor."― Sean Penn
- "Because one doesn’t like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God."― Victor Hugo
- "I’m not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on ‘Paradise Lost’ to translate it."― Callan McAuliffe