That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
Charles Dickens
“No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.”
― Walter Scott, Rob Roy
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
- Karl A. Menninger
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
“You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different.”
― Bill Watterson
The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow
“You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.”
― Donovan Inniss
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
― Phyllis Diller
“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
― George Orwell
"We are all but transits in this world. Borrowed time is all we have. We do what we can while it's in our favor." Arnel Pineda
"For five years, the administration has been attacked and criticized for everything it does," Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, told HuffPost. "Obama gets taken to court when he rolls out of bed in the morning. After a while, it just becomes the cost of doing business."
“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses
If the history of humanity were the clinical case history of a single human being, the diagnosis would have to be: chronic paranoid delusions, a pathological propensity to commit murder and acts of extreme violence and cruelty against his perceived enemies....his own unconsciousness projected outward. Criminally insane, with a few brief lucid intervals. -Eckhart Tolle
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato
“I've got nothing to do today but smile.”
― Paul Simon
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Khalil Gibran
“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
