Aim Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“There are stages in the contemplation and endurance of great sorrow, which endow men with the same earnestness and clearness of thought that in…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which…

— George Orwell

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

— Edward Abbey

“In the first place a man never is happy but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Only pains of life too intense to be borne could lead a man to forgo all response, to give up completely the joy of…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

A moment of self-giving lifecan conquer the sorrowsof many long years

— Sri Chinmoy

“To those who have neither public nor private affections, the excitements of life are much curtailed, and in any case dwindle in value as…

— John Stuart Mill

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish,…

— Russell M. Nelson

“if adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, strong of soul and more indignant about…

— Immanuel Kant

“The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. This inevitable of destiny can…

— William Forster Lloyd

Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

— Amos Bronson Alcott