Being true Quote by Herman Melville

“Nevertheless the sun hides not Virginia's Dismal Swamp, nor Rome's accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor all the million miles of deserts and of…

— Herman Melville

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way…

— Euripides

“Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and…

— Sylvan Barnet

A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows…

— Bertrand Russell

The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth…

— Kabir

“Man is mortal and, as has rightly been said, unexpectedly mortal.”

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

“And what is a man? He is someone who rises when life has knocked him down. He is someone who raises his fist to…

— David Gemmell

“What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that…

— Euripides

The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At…

— Simone Weil

“That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true, or undeveloped. With…

— Herman Melville

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier