What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and…

“Any thought that you are better or less Than another man Quickly Breaks the wine Glass.”

— Daniel Ladinsky

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

— May Sarton

What destroys one man preserves another.

— Pierre Corneille

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

— E. M. Forster

“Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.”

— E.M. Forster

“Pride destroys a man quicker than ignorance.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Laws can regulate only outer actions, and all outer actions are worthless when they do not arise from inner necessity.”

— Benjamin Carter Hett

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.

— Shirley

Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.

— Richard Wagner

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

— Albert Einstein

Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.

— Etty Hillesum

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

— Aleksandar Hemon

No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of…

— Aleksandar Hemon

The things I do outside of playing the piano are done out of an inner necessity, not just because I want to try my…

— Stephen Hough