Bottom Quote by Robert Boyle

All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable…

— James Sharp

“Thus I stretch out my arms to my Saviour, who, after being foretold for four thousand years, came on earth to die and suffer…

— Blaise Pascal

“The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These plethoras…

— Victor Hugo

If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of…

— Marcus Aurelius

“When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on Him to…

— Geoffrey Wood

Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies of our…

— Arthur Balfour

So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power,…

— Thomas Hobbes

When we follow the Savior of the world, the Son of God, we flourish and become glorious despite the many terrible circumstances that surround…

— Quentin L. Cook

The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without…

— Joseph de Maistre

[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off…

— John Ruskin

We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that…

— Blaise Pascal