21 quotes found
“The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. ...”
“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.”
“This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?”
“See the moon? It hates us.”
“In my heart's most secret place,I pity them as angels do.”
“There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has...”
“Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and ever...”
“Tears streamed down her wrinkled face. This world that she had longed to change for the better was as bad as the one into which she had been born. "An exercise in futility," she murmured.”
“Why is it that all individuals today, at least all who are socially conscious, are in one way or another tortured by social guilt? Because whatever they do is fatally false, falsified by the pressu...”
“There is nothing to be got in the world anywhere; privation and pain pervade it, and boredom lies in wait at every corner for those who have escaped them. Moreover, wickedness usually reigns, and f...”
“Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.”
“You can't ever really have enough worth that when you're gone, the spot you left won't close over.”
“Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.”
“One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.”
“It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because Im not a real person and neither is anyone else.”
“A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.”
“How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.”
“A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.”
“It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.”
