Advancing Quote by Judith Viorst

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body,…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Despair the twin-born of devotion.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.

— Julia Cameron

“Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us…

— George Eliot

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

— Ambrose Bierce

Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each…

— Arthur Helps

When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.

— Carl Linnaeus

The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.

— Paul Tillich

“And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes merely a…

— Geoffrey Wood

“Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fear is an orphaned part of us seeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to return to…

— Jacob Nordby

“The loss of an eager and unrestrained longing for someone or the lack of an unyielding desire of momentous incidents in life may blur…

— Erik Pevernagie

Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to…

— Walter Benjamin