Psychology Quote by David McRaney

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

— Roger L'Estrange

When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself…

— Blaise Pascal

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Most people are not in the world of awe and wonder. They're in the world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies are completely…

— Frederick Lenz

People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing they tell…

— Frederick Lenz

To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were…

— Henry David Thoreau

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

There's a segment of this world, there's a mind state that's permeated the intellectual consciousness of this world that comes from a certain type…

— El-P

Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.

— John Bowlby

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world;…

— Jane Austen

“...nothing is more blissful than to occupy the heights effectively fortified by the teaching of the wise, tranquil sanctuaries from which you can look…

— Lucretius

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe