Anti hero Quote by Mike Norton

“I felt enough of the effect of withdrawing from the world then, to see that it led to an antisocial and misanthropic state of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“he spoke of what he called the "inner history of weakness, of what disappoints us in leaders, the timidity of thought, the hesitancy and…

— Ronald Steel

“Too many of us have to sit foolishly by while something comes out of the dark, strikes, returns to wherever it came from, as…

— Thomas Pynchon

“How easily we abandon those who have suffered the same persecutions as we have. How quickly we grow impatient with their inability to transcend…

— Larissa Lai

“It is not self-forgetting and pain-loving antiquarianism nor self-forgetting and intoxicating romanticism which induces us to turn with passionate interest, with unqualified willingness to…

— Leo Strauss

“In our narrow, confined existence, we tend to forget the essence of life ... All of us, whatever our occupation or class, are equally…

— Jean Jaures

“The brevity of life, the failing of the senses, the numbness of indifference and unprofitable occupations allow us to know very little. And again…

— Nicholas Copernicus

“O you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me, you do not know…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“The majority of people carry in their minds and in their hearts, grudges, jealousy, envy, antipathies, prejudices, which, although not very pronounced in their…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native…

— Edward Said

“It is often advantageous to forget. Forget your wincing humiliations, forget life's blows, and get on. For blocks in every direction, down every street…

— Anna Godbersen