“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others. — Ian Botham Copy Share Image
Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The rocking of the boat by the waves was soothing but unknown. The men on the shore were asleep. Not the twelve-year-old,… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind. — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained...Yet men, loving their sins… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments,… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
After going to war against the U.N.'s expressed wishes, the U.S. is now admitting it needs the U.N.'s help. It's the geopolitical… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
We must eradicate root and branch any fear and dread in our soul concerning the future that is coming towards us... We… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder. — Charles Rollin Copy Share Image