Bitter Quote by John Ruskin

“I now understood darker emotions within themselves are not evil. It is the intent of the person who feels them that determines their fate.…

— Elizabeth Isaacs

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

— Bram Stoker

“Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to,…

— Steve Pavlina

“There are people who from early on reveal a great talent for misfortune. Unhappiness pummels at them like a stoning, every other day, and…

— José Eduardo Agualusa

Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of…

— Victor Hugo

“as well as over potentially ennobling or morally beatific states like sympathy, melancholia, and shame (the emotions given the most attention in literary criticism’s…

— Sianne Ngai

“To distort our faces with joy, or wail and weep with sorrow, or collapse in agony, or wallow in sentimentality – wasn’t an inviolable…

— Ryū Murakami

Only this way the human life will escape its own burden, its own image, its own Destiny, the vanity, the deceit and the absurd,…

— Sorin Cerin

I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth…

— Bertrand Russell

“Sara and I both have this very self-deprecating, almost abusive way of looking at ourselves. We both feel like we can be very destructive…

— Tegan Quin

“Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and…

— Adam Smith