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Insensibility Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied…
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose…
More Insensibility Quotes
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- [S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate… — Immanuel Kant
- We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate… — John Ruskin
- Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure — Fanny Burney
- Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence… — Samuel Johnson
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer:… — Samuel Johnson
- Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
- I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace… — Criss Jami
- When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot… — Jules Verne
- And somewhere in that crimson-colored never-never land where i pirouetted madly, in a wild and crazy effort to exhaust myself into insensibility,… — Virginia C. Andrews
- The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility. — William Thomas Green Morton