Attachment Quote by Francois Fenelon

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.

— Shoghi Effendi

“When on the eve of glory, whilst brooding over the prospects of a bright and happy future, whilst meditating upon the risky right of…

— Amanda McKittrick Ros

There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the…

— William George Jordan

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Too many of us have to sit foolishly by while something comes out of the dark, strikes, returns to wherever it came from, as…

— Thomas Pynchon

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of…

— George Santayana

“We all wish not to be disturbed. Instead we want to live out our lives in feasting and idleness, hoping the ugliness of this…

— June Strong

When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace…

— Adolf Hitler

“And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in which, therefore,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and…

— James E. Faust

“There is something profoundly cynical, my friends, in the notion of paradise after death. The lure is evasion. The promise is excusative. One need…

— Steven Erikson

“The world has its own ways of treating us like what we will never be, but want to be. It relinquishes its grip on…

— Annie Ali