Blight Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“To those who have neither public nor private affections, the excitements of life are much curtailed, and in any case dwindle in value as…

— John Stuart Mill

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

— David Mitchell

“Once we’ve concluded that this earthly life of ours is a gift of divine mercy—and grateful recollection of this is our obligation—then we rightly…

— John Calvin

“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

“We must eliminate the individual tendency to selfishness that snares the soul, shrinks the heart, and darkens the mind.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

“When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide. For what better grounds for suicide can there…

— Cyril Connolly

“Anyway, there are two tentative solutions for getting rid of selfishness - both involving a stoic casting - off of the thin tenuous little…

— Sylvia Plath

“Life has its pleasures, but also its pains. Death has no pleasure of life, but also none of its pain. So that if we…

— Kaiten Nukariya

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

— Scott Hahn

“In the light of this reasoning, life seems like a long nightmare from which one can free oneself with death, which would then be…

— Ernesto Sabato

Inherently within the temperamental soul of humanity lies a shivering and thoroughly jealous irrational thought of death. Life has such a fickle intense passion,…

— Johnny Luckett