He looked like some plant bleached by darkness.
Honor de Balzac.
“Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.”
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
“And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.”
“Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
“Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.”
“. . . when a woman has a husbandAnd you've got none,Why should she take advice from you?Even if you can quote Balzac and ShakespeareAnd all them other highfalutin' Greeks. ”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
“Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce that it is not genteel comedy even that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundes...”
“Let us love. Let our lives be a perpetual song of love for God, first of all, and for all human beings who suffer, love, and mourn. Let deep joy live in us. Let us be like the lark, enemy of the ni...”
“Inspirational quotes are only making you more miserable.”
“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”
“The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.”
