Cease Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.

— Alexander von Humboldt

“O the ultimate evil in the temporal world is deeper than any specific evil, such as hatred, or suffering, or death! The ultimate evil…

— John Gardner

Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail, Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay; Though darken'd in this poor life by a…

— James Gates Percival

“I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter—the Eternity they…

— Emily Brontë

There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven—

— Jorie Graham

Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders…

— Virginia Woolf

From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life…

— Bertrand Russell

When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our…

— Guy Finley

There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims…

— George Washington

“With full attention, you become an instrument of healing on our planet, for all that you touch and every being you meet is then…

— Mary O'Malley

In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the…

— Mervyn Peake