Depression Quote by Roberto Assagioli

“Sublime places gently move us to acknowledge limitations that we might otherwise encounter with anxiety or anger in the ordinary flow of events. It…

— Alain de Botton

Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity ...

— Lydia Millet

Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we…

— Alain de Botton

Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut…

— George Sand

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to…

— Jane Porter

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

— Isaac Newton

Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on…

— Anonymous

We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering…

— Keith Ablow

Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

— Ignatius of Antioch

“We pursue whatever we pursue out of torment — a need for torment. Our very quest for salvation is a torment, the subtlest, the…

— Emil M. Cioran

“But it's a curse, a condemnation, like an act of provocation, to have been aroused from not being, to have been conjured up from…

— Paul Harding