Class Quote by Hermann Hesse

“I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of…

— Hermann Hesse

“...I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that middle station had the…

— Daniel Defoe

The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment…

— Kathleen Norris

“My life had become weariness. It had wandered in a maze of unhappiness that led to renunciation and nothingness; it was bitter with the…

— Hermann Hesse

The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum…

— Leo Tolstoy

“In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing—the unsolved, the painful encounters, the…

— Jane B. Burka

“The middle classes did not go to public hospitals; those places were reserved for workers, child-mothers, and those unfortunates who had wasted their inheritance,…

— Gabriel Chevallier

“But while the residents were shocked by the violence, they were also often surprised by the mundaneness of it all. Discovered the extent of…

— Kiran Desai

“look at the toxic waste that most people put into the fertile garden of their minds every single day: the worries and anxieties, the…

— Robin S. Sharma

“they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning…

— J. C. Ryle