Hope to live Quote by Arnold Bennett

“Two thirds of human existence are wasted in hesitation, and the last third in repenting.”

— Émile Souvestre

“Theoretically he knew that life is possible, may even be pleasant, without joy, without passionate griefs. But it had never occurred to him that…

— Willa Cather

“In short, his aim is to make a home for himself between two extremes in a temperate zone without violent storms and tempests; and…

— Hermann Hesse

“A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which…

— James Allen

“- There are four obstacles. The first: he has heard, right from childhood, that everything he wishes to live is impossible. He grows up…

— Paulo Coelho

“There are, in the capacities of mankind, three varieties: one man will understand a thing by himself; another so far as it is explained…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“He felt like a man whose fever had broken, flush with the euphoria of the first, tenuous return of strength—still weak, but buoyant with…

— Gaelen Foley

“No one thing shows the greatness and power of the human intellect or the loftiness and nobility of man more than his ability to…

— Giacomo Leopardi

“That man indeed lives in a zone where no multiplicity can distress him and which is nevertheless the most active workshop of universal fulfillment.”

— Philip K. Dick

“Now, though, there was a second part, an artifact of his recent illness, as if his melancholy had, in a universe adjacent to this…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Is this even possible today?- But some day, in a stronger age than this decaying, self-doubting present, he must yet come to us, the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.”

— Thomas Hobbes