Doe Quote by Maurice Maeterlinck

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to…

— Herman Melville

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

— Oscar Wilde

“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in a man,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At…

— Simone Weil

“that his current state of sorrow was not uniquely his, not at all, but, rather, its like had been felt, would yet be felt,…

— George Saunders

Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in…

— Primo Levi

He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain.

— Hadewijch

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is…

— Anonymous

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope…

— Thomas Carlyle

He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

— Voltaire

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery…

— Salvatore Quasimodo