Life Quote by H.G. Wells

“There is no suffering, except remorse, so fatal as that which comes from the consciousness of strangled ambition, blasted hope, stifled aspiration. To be…

— Orison Swett Marden

“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as…

— Epicurus

“A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“And thus unknowingly, Dor began to serve his sentence -- to hear every plea from every soul who desired more of the thing he…

— Mitch Albom

“We act out of a Molotov cocktail of conscuious and unconscious desires. And also, we just do stuff.”

— Heather Harpham

“IMPROVIDENCE The other lives I might have led All now might as well be Dead. Survived by no one. Barren, without issue of any…

— John Tottenham

“It is not even in extraordinary situations, where all eyes are upon us, where all our energy is aroused, and all our vigilance is…

— Albert Pike

“It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the…

— Victor Hugo

“The mountains that enfold the vale With walls of granite, steep and high, Invite the fearless foot to scale Their stairway toward the sky.…

— Henry Van Dyke

“if adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, strong of soul and more indignant about…

— Immanuel Kant

“The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices—what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement, the passing…

— Franklin Foer