Bewildered Quote by Charles MacKay

“The eternal cycle, the beginning, middle and end of a human being, the incomprehensible dance in the magic of our own theatre will continue…

— Derek Raymond

“There is no disease more to be dreaded than madness. For what greater unhappiness can befall a man than to be deprived of his…

— Richard Mead

“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has been based on…

— Wendell Berry

“that suffering is the result of craving expressed through the Three Poisons: greed, hatred, and delusion.”

— Rick Hanson

“The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed…

— Aldous Huxley

“The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage to evade…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“We stare vacantly into our own future, frightened of all that time confiscates from us. We lament the theft of our beauty, youth, and…

— Shakieb Orgunwall

“Here, what do you know of madness and despair?' 'There are no such things. All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp,…

— Joseph Conrad

“Disease, and most specially opprobrious, suppressed, secret disease, creates a certain critical opposition to the world, to mediocre life, disposes a man to be…

— Thomas Mann

“Pascal, in one of his gloomier pensées, gave it as his opinion that all our miseries stemmed from a single cause: our inability to…

— Bruce Chatwin

“The cause of suffering is desire,”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“The madness with which suffering was dispersed in the world defied logic.”

— Alice McDermott