Darkness Quote by Sakyo Komatsu

“in general, from the violation of a few simple laws of humanity arises the wretchedness of mankind - that as a species we have…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“...given the behaviour of human beings throughout the ages, they do not deserve life, with its many dark sides, in all its beauty, grandeur…

— José Saramago

“In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing—the unsolved, the painful encounters, the…

— Jane B. Burka

“Society in its wisdom has found ways of constructing refuges of all kinds, for since it has been disposed to make the love-life a…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“This is not written for the young or the light of heart, not for the tranquil species of men whose souls are content with…

— B.E. Scully

“Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world…

— Frank Harris

“Upon the whole, here was an undoubted testimony that there was scarce any condition in the world so miserable but there was something negative…

— Daniel Defoe

“Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, contradictory, stretched between desires and temptations. In an unnatural…

— Alija Izetbegović

“The extreme inequalities in the manner of living of the several classes of mankind, the excess of idleness in some, and of labour in…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Beings become enraged and elated Through the causes for quarrels and celebrations. [154cd] They grieve and toil, they despair, And they mutilate and slay…

— Karl Brunnholzl

After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the…

— Hannah More

... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as…

— Frances Wright