Certain Quote by Charles Mackay

“And the self concern which is our torment, whether we know it or not, must find an antidote when we let our imagination stray…

— Julie Summers

“Suffering is inevitable in the cosmos, but preventing that suffering from manifesting as bad moods or bad behavior is absolutely possible in even the…

— Andrew Daley

Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to…

— Seneca the Younger

There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us…

— Jean de la Bruyere

And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I…

— Ann Radcliffe

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us.…

— Seneca the Younger

To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their…

— Yukio Mishima

We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that…

— Blaise Pascal

“We do not hold the belief that this earth is a realm of misery where man is doomed to destruction. We do not think…

— Ayn Rand

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough…

— Joseph Addison

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

— Josh Billings