Gloom Quote by Garrison Keillor

“It’s great to feel happy. Go, do what makes you feel happy. Do it shabbily and get shallow happiness; Do it hard and feel…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means…

— Anonymous

“Narcissists commonly cut people off and out of their lives due to their shallow emotional style of seeing others as either good or bad.”

— Karyl McBride

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy…

— Anonymous

“Everything down to the way we plan, dress, work, and talk is based on the assumption that there is only really the external physical…

— Aletheia Luna

Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When the mass of men are dispossessed - own nothing - they become wholly dependent upon the owners; and when those owners are in…

— Hilaire Belloc

All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from…

— Alexander Trocchi

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

— Thomas Carlyle

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

— Henry David Thoreau

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or…

— Henry David Thoreau

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

— Henry David Thoreau

I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

— Matthew Arnold

“I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not;—but mainly…

— Henry David Thoreau

The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into…

— Henry David Thoreau