Disgrace Quote by Anonymous

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

— Stendhal

I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.

— Werner Herzog

Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we…

— Colin Quinn

Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take…

— Laozi

We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.

— Luc de Clapiers

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

— May Sarton

The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults.

— Horace

“We are all innocent to begin with, and this merely means that neither we nor others know the evil of our own nature.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

— Roger L'Estrange