Depth Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

— Nic Pizzolatto

The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets…

— D.T. Suzuki

“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

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because…

— Simone Weil

“There is no error more common than that of thinking that those who are the causes or occasions of great tragedies share in the…

— Oscar Wilde

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which…

— George Orwell

“By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by being wise to the ways of…

— Kierkegaard

How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can…

— Tom Robbins

The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the…

— Edith Hamilton

“There is no suffering, except remorse, so fatal as that which comes from the consciousness of strangled ambition, blasted hope, stifled aspiration. To be…

— Orison Swett Marden

There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment.…

— Fernando Pessoa