Attention Quote by James A. Baldwin

“There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who know that he is going under in his own eyes, and in…

— James Baldwin

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he…

— Arthur Koestler

There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.

— Wole Soyinka

A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.

— Edgard Varese

No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the…

— Charles Dickens

In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.

— Guru Gobind Singh

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts…

— Eric Hoffer

He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

— Joseph Addison

If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of insignificant interests…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

— William Faulkner