William James Quote by Dee Cohen

“It was a fact that had become the focus of my entire life, a whisper in my heartbeat, a permanent, insidious presence that punctuated…

— Hazel Butler

“No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, "Good food at…

— Lynne Truss

“And though I feel an unfathomable exhaustion, I feel compelled to keep at it, as though to give up working would be to concede…

— Steven Laffoley

“Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.”

— Amit Kalantri

“all the works of mortal man have been doomed to mortality, and in the midst of things which have been destined to die, we…

— Seneca

This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.

— Ralph Barton Perry

“In the world of eternal return the weight of unbearable responsibility lies heavy on every move we make.”

— Milan Kundera

“The important fact is that for the man the act is eternal, and that for the brief space he has to live, he is…

— T.S. Eliot

“May the eternal life give, not a reason for living and working, but a sense of completeness which makes the search for any such…

— Simone Weill

“Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and…

— Henry Cloud

“You hear that, James Carstairs? We are bound, you and I, over the divide of death, down through whatever generations may come. Forever. ”

— Cassandra Clare

“In the past I wanted to be hung. It was worth while being hung to be a hero, seeing that life was not really…

— Christopher Fry